#lt foley

“He was there when he was needed, and how he got ‘there’ you often wondered. He never received recognition for his bravery, his heroic servicing of the wounded. I recommended him for a Silver Star after a devastating firefight when his exploits were typicaly outstanding. Maybe I didn’t use the proper words and phrases, perhaps Lieutenant Norman Staunton Dike, Jr. didn’t approve, or somewhere along the line it was cast aside. I don’t know. I never knew except that if any man who struggled in the snow and the cold, in the many attacks through the open and through the woods, ever deserved such a medal, it was our medic, Gene Roe."

So everywhere I look for Eugene roe it lists him as receiving a sliver star however I was under the impression of foleys recommendation never going high enough for it to be processed and given so do we know if this is for like a different event than what foley was trying to get him one for or was this somthing given postmortem /post war?? I'm yet to find documentation of this sliver star unlike the documentation of his purple hearts soo could this also be a document lost in that national records fire in the 70s ? I know some other personnel files from the 101st were lost