Dupage County Veterans Memorial

318th Theater Public Affairs Support Element
Story by Spc. Nicholas Henson

Date: 05.15.2021
Posted: 05.16.2021 16:55
News ID: 396554
The Dupage County Veterans Memorial

James and Kathy Suhr presented invaluable information regarding their cousin, Private First Class James H. Monroe, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Vietnam. James H. Monroe saved the lives of his fellow Army soldiers by falling on a grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and has a local middle school named in his honor, James Howard Monroe Middle School in Wheaton, Illinois.