BEND, OR (KATU/CNN) - In 1944, Bob Maxwell dove onto a German grenade to protect his fellow soldiers in an action for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
In 2017, Maxwell, now the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient at 97, helped create the Medal of Honor Highway in his home state of Oregon.
The highway was dedicated a couple of weeks ago and is the only memorial highway to cross a state nonstop.
It is also the only one with signs dedicated to all branches of the armed forces and all 26 Medal of Honor recipients with ties to Oregon.
"The state's never even heard of most of them, don't even know where they lived or anything," Maxwell said. "We've got to remember them. When they're traveling at some place or another, they'll find their names and I think that's important."
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