***Medal of Honor Monday! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 *** On this day in 1968, a hero puts his life on the line, saving his fellow soldiers. Marvin “Rex” Young would later receive a Medal of Honor for his bravery. “I was not surprised at what he did,” a high school friend later said. “That was his personality. That was what he did all his life.” Young spent much of his childhood in Odessa, Texas. He was a good student, an athlete, and a “very personable young man with a zest for life,” as his high school’s assistant principal would remember. Nevertheless, things could have gone south pretty fast. After his parents got divorced, his mom struggled alone to raise her kids: Young’s dad had already remarried and was living in Alaska. “He grew up in a situation where it would have been easy to make the wrong choices,” a classmate later said, “but he didn’t.” Young enlisted in the Army in September 1966, knowing that he was likely to get drafted anyway. By October 1967, he was on his way to Vietnam. “[W]ha...