The Three Wars of Roy P. Benavidez

Roy. P. Benavidez, served twenty-four years in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the 82nd Airborne and 5th Special Forces Group, as well as the Studies and Observations Group (SOG). Roy served two tours in Vietnam. On February 24, 1981, Roy was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions that took place in Cambodia on May 2, 1968. Later in life, Roy became one of America's most popular motivational speakers and youth role models. For 17 years he traveled throughout the country speaking to Fortune 500 companies, schools, prison inmates, and civic and military organizations. Roy and his wife Lala, have three children and eight grandchildren. He passed away on November 29, 1998, at the age of 63 and is buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.

Oscar O'Neal Griffin, Jr., was a U.S. Army Veteran, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, former Editor of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise, and a former Houston Chronicle White House Correspondent. In 1963 he won the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for exposing the Billie Sol Estes scandal during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Oscar also served as Assistant Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1969-1973. In 1974, Oscar and his wife Patricia settled in El Campo, Texas, to run his father's oil company and raise their four children. He died on November 23, 2011, at the age of 78.