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James Leroy Bondsteel (July 18, 1947 – April 9, 1987) was a United States Army soldier who served during the Vietnam War, where he earned the Medal of Honor. His Medal of Honor, awarded in November 1973, was the last presented by President Richard Nixon. Camp Bondsteel, located in Kosovo, is named in his honor. The northbound bridge over the Knik River along the Glenn Highway north of Anchorage, Alaska, where Bondsteel died in a freak traffic collision, is also named in his honor. ==Biography== James Leroy Bondsteel was born in Jackson, Michigan to Betty Jean Daisy and her fiancee, Kenneth Bondsteel. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1965 after graduating from Jonesville, Michigan. He was sent to Korea, where he contributed his time to an orphanage. Once he had finished his stint in the Corps he joined the United States Army, serving from 1965 to 1985. From 1966 to 1970 he was assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He received the Medal of Honor for his most heroic actions, which occurred on May 24, 1969, in An Loc Province, Republic of Vietnam. In 1970 to 1973 he was stationed in West Germany. After his retirement from the Army as a Master Sergeant, he again served his brothers in arms as a veterans counselor. He lived in Willow, Alaska with his wife Elaine and his daughters, Angel & Rachel. Bondsteel died on the Knik River bridge of the Glenn Highway in 1987 when a trailer full of logs came unhooked from the transport which was pulling it and slammed into the front of his AMC Spirit. A tree was placed at Freedoms Foundation Park at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in his honor. Bondsteel is buried in Alaska at Fort Richardson National Cemetery. There is a monument to him at the Alaska Veterans Memorial at Byers Lake on the Parks Highway.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mishalov.com/Bondsteel.html )〕 Camp Bondsteel, the main U.S. Army base in Kosovo, is named in his honor. Bondsteel, along with three other Medal of Honor recipients that were from the area, is honored on the Medal of Honor Memorial in Jackson County, Michigan, dedicated on November 22, 2011. Memorial at rearing ponds Hillsdale Mi at fallen soldier pond. The rearing ponds is named the Lewis Emery Park and in the civil war was used to train Union soldiers. http://www.hillsdalehistoricalsociety.org/lewis-emery/ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Leroy Bondsteel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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