The quiet patriot

This Sunday night on your local PBS station, the public network will televise its annual National Memorial Day Concert at 7 p.m (CST).

Drafted at the age of 19, Allen Hoe was a combat medic in Vietnam. His service earned him a Bronze Star Medal, a Purple Heart, and a Combat Medic Badge.

Providence spared his life in Southeast Asia, as it had his own father’s who was a ship fitter at Pearl Harbor and…