He does his state, and his coutnry, proud.

Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble was honored today at a White House ceremony for his military valor.

The Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award, comes more than 25 years after his death and almost six decades since he saved the lives of fellow soldiers in Korea.

(President Bush) “As Woody first started off, some one saw him and remarked, either he’s the bravest soldier I have ever met or he’s crazy. Soldiers watched in awe as Woody single handedly took out one machine gun nest and then another. When Woody was through, all 16 enemy soldiers were dead, the hill was taken and the allies won the day. Woody Keeble’s act of heroism saved many American lives and earned him a permanent place in his fellow soldiers’ hearts.”

Keeble, a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe, is the first Sioux Indian to receive the Medal of Honor.

It’s too bad that Keeble’s honor has to come just as his tribe engages in decidedly non-American banishment of a person from their reservation.  Not to speak for Keeble, but I doubt that’s the sort of thing he risked his life for in service of this country.