Woman's Quest Could Mean Medal of Honor for Dad

It was bravery at the highest level: William Shemin defied German machine gun fire to sprint across a World War I battlefield and pull wounded comrades to safety. And he did so no fewer than three times.

Then, with the platoon's senior soldiers wounded or killed, the 19-year-old American took over command of his unit and led it to safety, even after a bullet pierced his helmet and lodged behind an ear.

Yet Shemin never earned the nation's highest military citation, the Medal of Honor - a result, many suspected, of the fact that he was Jewish at a time when discrimination ran rampant throughout the U.S. ¬military.

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