Richard E. Bush, born December 23, 1923, served in the United States Marine Corps with the 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 6th Marine Division and received the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a squad leader in action against enemy forces during the final assault against Mount Yabtake on Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands on April 16, 1945.