video: French President Awards Highest Honor for Bravery to Oregon Native
Monday, August 24, 2015
The Oregon native and National Guardsman Spc. Alek Skarlatos and three other men who tackled and disarmed a gunman on an Amsterdam to Paris train have been awarded France's highest honor.
French President François Hollande at a cermeony awarded the Legion of Honour to a Briton and three Americans during a ceremony at the Elysée Palace in Paris.
Video courtesy of EuroNews.
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