If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s pretty moving: For Memorial Day, ABC News helped a family reconnect with a relative who died more than 50 years ago in Vietnam. Captain Riley Leroy Pitts was killed in 1967, and was the first Black officer to receive the Medal of Honor.
His wife was recently watching a PBS documentary on Muhammad Ali when she randomly saw a clip of him talking about Ali being a conscientious objector. It turned out it came from ABC’s archives, so ABC went looking for more footage.
She and her son both got emotional watching it. It turned out a reporter had gone back to interview Captain Pitts’ men after he died. They talked about how much they respected him, and the kind of leader he was.
