During an ambush in the Vietnam conflict, many American soldiers were forced to make life-or-death decisions. When a fellow soldier triggered a booby trap, Donald Sloat had only seconds to react. He chose to save his fellow soldiers.
Sloat was born on Feb. 6, 1949 in Coweta, Oklahoma to Evelyn and Ezra. He was a lineman on the Coweta Tigers football team before graduating from his hometown high school in 1967. He furthered his education at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma.
