Lincoln Police Sergeant Tu Tran says it was quite an honor meeting President Biden at the White House on Friday. Biden presented Tran with the Medal of Valor for saving a woman from a sinking car in February of 20023, his second water rescue in less than a year.
The Medal of Valor is the nation’s highest honor for public safety officers. “Talking to President Biden, that was an awesome, incredible experience,” Tran said Monday morning. Politics aside, still the most powerful man in the world, powerful room, and incredible history in that room. Shaking his hand and getting the Medal of Valor was awesome,” Tran says.
Tran says he was honored to be recognized with the seven other recipients of the award, including officers who stopped a school shooting in Nashville and a New York firefighter who rescued a woman and her child from a burning home.
Tran says the excitement of the moment began building as he waited in the Roosevelt Room. ” Once it was my turn, they brought me into the Oval Office with my family and my guests.” Tran says President Biden gave them a tour of the Oval Office and spoke to the group for about 30 minutes.
