COLORADO POLITICS — PUEBLO — U.S. forces had the capability to win the Vietnam War but not the support they needed back home, Medal of Honor recipient and retired Marine Maj. Gen. James Livingston said during a ceremony to unveil his portrait at the Center for American Values in Pueblo.
“The Vietnamese just love Americans,” he said at Friday’s event. “The negative impact of the Vietnam War was made in Washington by politicians who turned off supplies that we had agreed to.”
The portrait of Livingston, 78, joins those of more than 140 other Medal of Honor recipients at the center, which fellow medal recipient and Pueblo native Drew Dix helped found in 2010.
The apolitical center intends to “recognize and preserve the values this great country was founded on,” according to its website.
Livingston was awarded the Medal of Honor by then-President Richard Nixon on May 14, 1970, for his actions on May 2, 1968, in the village of Dai Do, Vietnam. He was the commanding officer of E Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marines, Ninth Marine Amphibious Brigade the day he led his men in a “savage assault against enemy emplacements within the village,” according to the citation.
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