Navy Lt. Melvin Spence Dry dropped out of a helicopter into choppy waters off the coast of North Vietnam in June 1972. On a highly classified mission to rescue two escaped American prisoners of war, he died the moment he hit the water.

But because the mission was top-secret, Dry's valor went officially unrecognized. No medals, no commendations and no place of honor among the fallen at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1968.

Even his parents were told that he died in a training exercise.

But his father, also an academy graduate, never bought that explanation.

He spent the rest of his life seeking the truth and arguing that his son should be honored, a cause picked up by Dry's Annapolis classmates after his father died in 1997.

Yesterday, in a ceremony in the academy's hallowed Memorial Hall that was attended by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dry was awarded the Bronze Star posthumously.

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This is a great Story and it makes you wonder how many untold stories of the same level will never be told.In Vietnam the stories told by John Kerry and insident such as Capt. Calley over shadowed everything else no one bottered to find what caused insident like My Lai just about like now the News Media and Political figures could give a damm less as long as it makes the Rateings go up.