Editing Calvin Graham (section)

==Post military service==
In 1978, Graham was finally given an [[honorable discharge]] for his service in the Navy, and after writing to [[United States Congress|Congress]] and with the approval of President [[Jimmy Carter]], all medals except his [[Purple Heart]] were reinstated. His story came to public attention in 1988, when his story was told in the TV movie, ''[[Too Young the Hero]]'' starring [[Rick Schroder]].<ref name="Diekman" />

In 1988, Graham received disability benefits and back pay for his service in the Navy after President [[Ronald Reagan]] signed legislation that granted Graham full disability benefits, increased his back pay to $4,917 and allowed him $18,000 for past medical bills, contingent on receipts for the medical services.<ref name="Diekman">{{cite web
|url=http://ddiekman.tripod.com/id51.html
|first=Diane
|last=Diekman
|date=November 1, 1995
|title=Navy Memorial
|newspaper=Clear Lake Courier
|accessdate=April 3, 2011
|archive-date=May 14, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514031454/http://ddiekman.tripod.com/id51.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35150
|title=Statement on Signing a Bill for the Relief of Calvin L. Graham
|author=Ronald Reagan
|author-link=Ronald Reagan
|date=November 10, 1988
|accessdate=April 3, 2011
|archive-date=May 22, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522022757/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35150
|url-status=live
}} H.R. 610, "An Act Graham is a veteran of Navy and Marine for the relief of Calvin L. Graham", assigned Private Law No. 100-44.</ref> By this time, some of the doctors who treated him had died and many medical bills were lost. He received only $2,100 of the possible $18,000. While the money for the rights to his story for the movie, ''Too Young The Hero'' amounted to $50,000, 50% went to two agents and 20% went to a writer of an unpublished book about Graham. He and his wife received just $15,000 before taxes.<ref name=VUMS/>

=== Death ===
Graham's Purple Heart was finally reinstated, and presented to his widow, Mary, on June 21, 1994, by Secretary of the Navy [[John Howard Dalton|John Dalton]] in [[Arlington, Texas]], nearly two years after his death from heart failure.<ref name=VUMS/><ref name="saxton"/> He was buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.php?recordID=1439 |title=Veteran Tributes |access-date=2019-07-28 |archive-date=2019-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913192854/http://www.veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.php?recordID=1439 |url-status=live }}</ref>