"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life, above the beyond the call of duty in action…Childers had just previously suffered a fractured instep, he…ordered a base of fire laid across the field so that he could advance. When he was fired upon by two enemy snipers from a nearby house, he killed both of them. He moved behind the machine gun nests and killed all occupants of the nearer one. He continued toward the second one and threw rocks into it. When the two occupants of the nests raised up, he shot one…Lieutenant Childers continued his advance toward a house farther up the hill and, single-handed, captured an enemy mortar observer. The exceptional leadership, initiative, calmness under fire and conspicuous gallantry displayed by Lieutenant Childers was an inspiration to his men." -President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ernest Childers received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism, plus numerous other medals.

Thank you Ernest for your dedicated service.