Cowardice in the face of the enemy is not supposed to be rewarded, she was given the Bronze Star, wealth and celebrity.
I have been searching for information about the heroic soldiers and their actions and can’t find it yet, other than that Donald Ralph Walters was upgraded from a Bronze Star to a Silver Star after public pressure. I don’t know which guy took out the Mortar team and saved their lives.
She was captured and raped. Isn’t that enough for you?