Agreed and understood. He never talked much about it and never asked for his medals. The ones he did have he had let my uncle, who died in 7 (hit head on by a drunk driver) hold them. He was destined to get married soon. When he passed he told his fiance to keep them and she still has them to this day. She has offered to return them to the family though.
Walking in his house you'd know he was a pastor for 24 years (after his military service) but hardly anything in his house resembled his incredible service save this picture, purchased by his daughter, which hung in his family room.
http://vietnamreflections.com/themed/new/img/img1.jpg
After he passed we found multiple newspaper clippings that grandma (passed in 1999) held onto. One had a picture and article where he was waist deep in a muddy hole and couldn't see the bottom searching for live munitions with a breaker bar, the other was where a plane went down and as an E9 he told his guys to get back while he and an E7 ran into the burning plane and each carried 4 ~300+ pound bombs (I believe that was the weight) off by themselves so they wouldn't asplode.
The man is a true American hero who never asked for acclimations and is laid to rest in a humble cemetary in Adams County where most will never know all he gave for his country.