 Leslie Sabo arranged for a special gift to be delivered to his wife Rose before he left for Vietnam, never to return. Rose would have to wait 32 years before she learned the truth. Her husband died a hero. The U.S. Army is proud to announce Specialist 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr. will receive the Medal of Honor. Leslie Sabo was born in Austria in 1948 and immigrated to America with his family two years later. It was at his hometown in Elwood City, Pennsylvania where he met Rose. I was a senior in high school and he was a year ahead of me. We planned our wedding for September 13th, 1969. In January of 1969 he got drafted. Leslie shipped off to Georgia for basic training. When their original wedding date approached, they let him come home the weekend of our wedding and he had to go back that next day. Leslie was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and was told he was going to Vietnam. We had 30 days together and then he left in November and I never saw him again. Leslie's battalion was ordered into Cambodia. On May 10th, his company was ambushed from all sides by a large enemy force. When a grenade landed near him in a wounded comrade, Leslie shielded him with his own body taking the brunt of the blast himself. When they were telling me this, I'm like, are you sure, you know, I couldn't believe it. He then charged an enemy bunker, receiving several wounds from automatic fire. Mortally injured, he crawled toward the enemy emplacement and threw a grenade, silencing the guns but also ending his own life. I never stopped loving him. Sometimes it feels like yesterday I lost him. You never forget, you never forget that feeling. As Rose was leaving for her husband's funeral, a delivery man arrived at her door to present a dozen red roses. A final gift from her husband for her birthday.