‘Crimson Valor’

Navy captain Phil Keith (Ret.), a fighter pilot commissioned through NROTC at Harvard, has just published a history, Crimson Valor, profiling the 17 graduates of Harvard who have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Harvard has more alumni Medal of Honor recipients than any other institution of higher learning outside the service academies. Learn more about Harvard’s heroes at the Advocates for Harvard ROTC, which provides a brief sketch for each, including U.S. Army staff sergeant Robert C. Murray of the 196th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1970 at age 24. His Medal of Honor citation reads: