Joe Jackson's Honor

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Joe Jackson won the medal of honor by putting his life on the line during the Vietnam War.
The biggest reason why Joe Jackson had enlisted was that his friend suddenly had become ill, so the friend had asked Joe to take his spot while he had some time to get better/ heal himself. While Joe was in the spot of his ill friend the engine on the plane that he was flying had caught on fire, and no one knew what to do. Joe had suggested to feather the engine, indeed they feathered the fire and it had gone out. Joe then did some thinking, and decided that he wanted to go to Aviation Cadet Training because he wanted to become a professional air plane mechanic. “If that guy don’t know what to do when you get an engine fire, but I do know what to do,

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