Tribune photo by Aaron Piper/ Louisville VA Medical Center chaplain Colonel David Graetz shakes hands with Dean Goens while his wife Dallie Goens and grandson Lance Corporal Bryant Jahrries, after Goens received his Combat Infantryman Badge on October 9, 2012, forty-four years and nine months after he should have been awarded the badge. The CIB is awarded for actual combat experience. Goens served in Vietnam in 1968 and should have received the badge at that time.