(COLORADO SPRINGS) — On Friday, Feb. 21, the PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom VA Clinic in Colorado Springs honored its namesake, local Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Pfc. Floyd K. Lindstrom, with a flag presentation.

The event commemorated the month of his passing and the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Lindstrom Clinic in December 2014. Lindstrom, a Colorado Springs native, served in the U.S. Army during World War II, with the 3rd Infantry Division, fighting in the European Theater.

According to the VA, on Nov. 11, 1943, with his division under heavy Nazi gunfire on the slopes of Mount la Difensa, near Mignano, Italy, Lindstrom infiltrated a Nazi machine gun nest, killed two Nazi soldiers, took their machine gun, and sent the other soldiers fleeing. He then drug the weapon to his men’s location and had them use it on other Nazi soldiers on the mountain’s slopes and risked his life, once again, to return to the nest to retrieve more ammunition for the weapon, all the while under heavy enemy fire.

Lindstrom was killed Feb. 3, 1944, near Anzio, Italy, in a Nazi counterattack. However, for his actions that day on Nov. 11, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. His profile on the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s website says he was awarded the Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.”

On Friday, veterans and civilians gathered to honor Lindstrom’s courage and sacrifice, by presenting the flags that were raised and flown on the day of the Lindstrom Clinic’s opening in December of 2014. The flags were presented to the VA by U.S. Army veteran Keith LaMee, historian and past commander at American Legion Floyd K. Lindstrom Post 5.

“It has become my mission to make sure Floyd Lindstrom is not forgotten and his adopted hometown, because he came here when he was about two years old, and he was forgotten about for so many years. And now it’s like, ‘No, we will keep that memory alive,'” said LaMee.