James H. Webb Jr.
PR Award Recipient, 1979
A highly decorated Vietnam War Marine veteran, former staffer with the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and faculty member at (his alma mater) the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was presented with the award after writing “Fields of Fire,” a novel about several Marines serving during Vietnam.
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