Nick Bacon
Nicky Daniel Nick Bacon was a United States Army first sergeant from the Americal Division who served during the Vietnam War. For his actions in combat in Tam Ky, Vietnam, Bacon was awarded Americas highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.
Bacon was born in Caraway, Arkansas, on November 25, 1945, one of nine children. His parents, Johno and Beta Imogene Jean Bacon, were sharecroppers on a cotton farm. His siblings were sisters Jenny, Brenda, Judy, Hope, and Wanda and brothers Doyle, Johno Jr., and Andy. In 1951, a poor farming economy prompted the family to move to Glendale, Arizona, where Johno Bacons parents lived. Nicky Bacon grew up driving tractors and picking cotton on the ranch where his father worked. He dropped out of Peoria High School to work fulltime to support the family when his father contracted polio, although he later earned a GED. I hated picking cotton and that other stuff, he later said. Ive done my share of it. And Ill guarantee you one thing Ive never, ever went back to it once I was old enough to hold a mans job.
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