Compatriot Michael Gunn awarded CDT Edwin Cervantes the Silver ROTC medal and Certificate at the Xavier University All For One Battalion Annual ROTC Awards and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, April 21, 2018. Cincinnati SAR’s award was one of the 29 awards presented to the Xavier, Miami, Mt. St. Joseph and Thomas More students ROTC’s All For One Battalion.

At the ceremony one of the six inductees was a 94 Year old WWII Ret. Maj. Ed Burke whose resume included a dozen medals from the U.S. Army, France and Belgium as he saw front line service after his tank unit landed on the beaches at D-Day.