Marine receives Medal of Honor at White House
American marine (Dakota Meyer) went far into enemy territory with his small group of men. It was a village, suddenly all of the lights go out, and then he could hear noises that sounded like the valley had exploded. Him and his group had requested to go into the village four times, all four times they had been denied. Dakota finally realized what he needed to do, his right hand man got inside the hum-v and Dakota manned the machine gun up on top. They were driving right into a kill zone; their objective was to retrieve some trapped Americans. He and his team went into the village five times to save the lives are our Americans. Dakota said: “I did not think I was going to die, I knew I was going to”.
Even though he had defied the orders of his commanding officer, he is still recognized for his valiant efforts in Afghanistan. When Obama had called him he was at his civilian job as a construction worker, Dakota said that he was unavailable the first time because he could not miss work because that meant that he would not be making money. The meeting had to be scheduled on his lunch break.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/09/15/marine.medal.of.honor/index.html?hpt=us_c2
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