Vietnam veteran finally gets his medals after 45 year wait
It was the moment Ted Montuori waited 45 years to see.
Montuori, a Vietnam War veteran from Bay Ridge, was staring at the Combat Action Ribbon that U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm was about to present him Wednesday morning. “This is very important to me,” he told Grimm as the two men stood in the congressman’s district office in Dyker Heights.
Grimm (R-C-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Staten Island), himself a U.S. Marine veteran, was also presenting Montuori with two medals: the Vietnam Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.