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"Sijan"

Miniature bronze sculpture representing Captain Lance Sijan, USAF Medal of Honor Recipient from the Vietnam War.

The sculpture is one of the Medal of Honor Portraits in Bronze series created by the sculptor for the benefit of  Valor Remembered Foundation.

Sculptor:  Jenelle Armstrong Byrd

Sijan is to this date the only graduate of the Air Force Academy to receive the Medal of Honor.  He died as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam after suffering grave injuries and true torture at the hands of the enemy.