Staff Sergeant Edward N. Kaneshiro (Vietnam) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/nmcp.asp. Kaneshiro was born in Honolulu, HI, in 1928, the eighth of sixteen siblings. He enlisted in the Army in 1959 and served a few overseas non-combat tours prior to deployment to South Vietnam. He received his Medal of Honor posthumously for actions as an Infantry Squad Leader with Troop C, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Division near Phu Huu 2 in the Kim Son Valley, Republic of Vietnam, on December 1, 1966. In this engagement, part of his unit was ambushed by North Vietnamese soldiers concealed in a trench system. Kaneshiro went towards the gunfire and crawled forward alone to attack the entrenched enemies with his rifle and six grenades. He swept the trench and allowed for the extraction of his unit and larger withdrawal from the village. He died in another combat action on March 6, 1967, leaving behind a wife and five children. President Joseph Biden presented his Medal of Honor to his son John on July 5, 2022.
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