Claude Woodruff receives long overdue Congressional Medal

A young Edythe Woodruff Stewart was terrified of that snake at the bottom of the slide.

She resisted going down, afraid it could harm her. But she remembered her father, Claude Earnest Woodruff Jr., didn’t believe in fear.

So she slid down with the fearlessness in the back of her mind, the same courageous attitude her father carried throughout his life.

Saturday, family, fellow Marines, fraternity brothers and players he’s coached posthumously honored Woodruff . . .