Nearly 53 years after saving a Navy plane crew from an icy death off the Aleutian Islands, Leo Land of Haines, a former Army infantryman, has received a brand new Bronze Star Medal.
As he did with the original in the 1980s, Land is donating the medal back to the government as part of an ongoing campaign for better treatment of veterans.
His original Bronze Star was awarded in 1946 for a search-and-rescue mission during…
