Woodrow W. Keeble
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Died when: 64 years 257 days (776 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Woodrow Wilson Keeble (May 16, 1917 – January 28, 1982) (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) was a U.S.Army National Guard combat veteran of both World War II and the Korean War.
In 2008 he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroic actions during the Korean War.He was a full-blooded member of the people of the Lake Traverse Reservation, a federally recognized tribe of Dakota people.
On March 3, 2008, following a long campaign by his family and the congressional delegations of both North and South Dakota, President George W.
Bush posthumously awarded Keeble the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on October 20, 1951, in the Korean War.Keeble had previously been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for these actions in 1952.
He was wounded at least twice in World War II and three times in Korea, but he had received only two Purple Hearts for these injuries; later he was credited with four Purple Hearts.
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