Tom Little

Thomas E. Little (March 20, 1949 – August 5, 2010) was an American Christian optometrist from Kinderhook, New York. he and nine other members of his team were murdered. He is a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Biography The son of an ophthalmologist, Little attended Ichabod Crane High School in Valatie, New York, where he dated his future wife, Libby. The couple's three daughters were educated at Woodstock School in India. Little spoke Dari fluently. He was involved in National Organization of Ophthalmic Rehabilitation Eye Project, and he trained Afghans in optical care. At Little's memorial service, his friend, Rev. James Hale, said, "'When Tom believed in Christ and trusted in Christ it wasn’t just something in his head'". On August 21, 2010, Little's body was interred at the British Cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Little was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on February 15, 2011. Obama called Little a "'humanitarian in the true sense of the word'".