EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Granting a Congressional Gold Medal to all World War II Army Rangers, including an Excelsior Springs resident, has received congressional approval. First Sgt. Frank Mattivi – a Darby’s Ranger and Ranger Hall of Fame member who died in 2018 – served among the original 500 men who comprised the 75th Ranger Regiment. He is among the Rangers who will be honored. “It passed by a whopping 418 to 0,” a Mattivi family friend, Laura Moore, Lawson, said. “Congress has done its job, and now, we wait for the president to sign the Congressional Gold Medal into law for our World War II Rangers.” Securing the medal took years, but as the Ranger creed states, “Surrender is no a Ranger word.” “This session of Congress is our third attempt,” amounting to five years of work on The Hill, retired Ranger Ron Hudnell said, but the effort began eight years ago. “I started sending emails in 2014. The problem then was, no one knew the process, and no one (in Congress) was willing to…