Woodrow W. Keeble

Woodrow Wilson Keeble’s decorations are an Army matter of record before the 2008 Medal of Honor ceremony. The U.S. Army’s published Medal of Honor biography states that while in the Army he received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. This decorations page records the Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal, and Silver Star from that account. It does not invent a higher Purple Heart count, even when later narratives speak of additional wounds.

The Medal of Honor citation — presented posthumously on March 3, 2008 — covers the one-man assault on three fortified machine-gun positions near Sangsan-ni, Korea, on October 20, 1951, when Keeble was an acting platoon leader in Company G, 19th Infantry. Separate Army reporting places an earlier Bronze Star and a Purple Heart with his World War II service on Guadalcanal, and additional valor awards with his Korean tour. Those are separate entries from the Medal of Honor. This register will not fold them into one badge.

Keeble is not yet on the Korean War war-roll essay. This decorations page is the first Notice Nearby entry. A Senate campaign, a Hall of Heroes induction, and a family fight to correct a lost recommendation are public history. They are not military decorations, and they are not printed here as if they were.