1.Congress makes the following
findings:
(1)David F. Winder, was born on August 10,
1946, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
(2)David F. Winder served as a Private First
Class in the United States Army, enlisting in Columbus, Ohio, in 1968. His
service in the Army ended in May 1970.
(3)David F. Winder was awarded the Medal of
Honor, the highest honor in the United States awarded for valor to members of
the Armed Forces, for his actions during the ambush of his company, on May 13,
1970, in the Republic of Vietnam for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at
the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a senior medical
aidman with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry
Brigade, Americal Division.
(4)Unarmed, PFC Winder proceeded to crawl over
100 meters of open, bullet swept terrain to treat the 2 different wounded
soldiers while suffering 2 serious wounds himself in the process. He was
mortally wounded for the third and final time when closing to within 30 feet of
a third soldier.
(5)PFC Winder was laid to rest in Mansfield
Memorial Park.
2.David F. Winder Department of Veterans
Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic
(a)The Department of Veterans Affairs
community based outpatient clinic located in Mansfield, Ohio, shall after the
date of the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the David
F. Winder Department of Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient
Clinic
.
(b)Any reference in a law, map, regulation,
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Department of
Veterans Affairs community based outpatient clinic referred to in subsection
(a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the David F. Winder Department of
Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic.
Passed the Senate
June 29, 2012.
Nancy Erickson,
Secretary