On March 3, 2008, President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to Master Sergeant Woodrow W Keeble. Woody Keeble is the first Sioux to be awarded the Medal. On October 20, 1951, during the Korean War, Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble saved his men by taking on three Chinese machine gun bunkers by himself. This book is the story of the battle and how Keeble preserved during five days of round-the-clock combat. It was the last major UN offensive of the Korean War. In October of 1951, Keeble's unit was charged with taking several mountains surrounding a Chinese base. During the extreme combat, he was wounded on October 15th...And again on October 17...And again on October 18...he received the Silver Star for his actions that day. On October 19th, Keeble had 83 pieces of shrapnel removed from his body. He was told to stay in the rear of the operation and rest. Woodrow Keeble refused. All of the officers had been killed. Keeble was in command of three platoons. He would not abandon his company. And, so, on the final assault he was wounded again on October 20th when his company stormed the last mountain protecting the Chinese base. Keeble led all three platoons in assault after assault upon the Chinese. All charges were repulsed, and the company suffered heavy casualties. The defensive trenches were filled with enemy soldiers and were protected by three pillboxes containing machine guns and additional Chinese soldiers. After the battle, Keeble's chain of command nominated him for the Medal of Honor- in fact, every surviving member of Keeble's company wrote letters of support. Three times the paperwork was submitted. The problem was that the 24th Infantry Division had already reached its quota for MOHs and wouldn't award another. In addition to the Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, and Silver Star he had been awarded in Korea, Woodrow Keeble was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross instead of the Medal of Honor.