Troopers Honored at White House for Saving Kidnapped Boy
Two state troopers received the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor at a White House ceremony Wednesday. The troopers rescued a 9-year-old Nazareth boy kidnapped at gunpoint.
Two Pennsylvania state troopers were honored -- one of them posthumously -- at the White House Wednesday for rescuing a 9-year-old Nazareth boy kidnapped at gunpoint by his father. Troopers Robert Lombardo and Joshua Miller received the Medal of Valor, the highest national award for valor by a public safety officer, during a ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. “It [the ceremony] is just an attempt to show you how much we appreciate, how much we recognize, how much we need men and women like you to keep this a civil society,” Biden said to the 18 recipients for 2009-10 and 2010-11. Miller was honored posthumously. His wife, Angela Miller, tearfully accepted the Medal of Valor and condolences from …
