On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 12:45 PM at the Post Chapel ,Arlington National Cemetery burial with full military honors of Jon Robert Cavaiani (August 2, 1943 – July 29, 2014) was a U.S. Army soldier a POW and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Vietnam War. He died on July 29, 2014 at the age of 70 in Stanford, California. Jon had myelodysplastic syndrome.