The Medic Who Gave Everything: Clarence Sasser’s Longest Night
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The episode recounts the harrowing experience of Clarence Sasser, a combat medic during the Vietnam War, who risked everything to save his fellow soldiers despite being injured.
In 1968, Clarence Sasser was a young combat medic thrust into a nightmare. During a reconnaissance mission in Vietnam, his company was ambushed in a rice paddy. Despite being shot in the leg and unable to walk, Sasser spent the next several hours crawling through the mud, doing his best to care for his fellow soldiers. It would be decades before he was ready to talk about what he saw and heard. Binge the full season of Medal of Honor, ad-free, with a Pushkin+ subscription. Sign up and save on the Medal of Honor show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus . Use the code MOH25 for 25% off an annual subscription. Connect with the team! Follow Pushkin on social @pushkinpods Follow JR Martinez @iamjrmartinez Follow Meredith Rollins @meredithkrollins Email the team: medalofhonor@pushkin.fm Episode resource: AMEDD Center of HIstory & Heritage interview with Clarence Sasser , 3/23/1987 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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