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Another Medal of Honor Recipient
Obama will present Dakota Meyer with America's highest military decoration for his heroics in September 2009 -- when the then 21-year-old Marine corporal repeatedly risked his own life to save the lives of 36 US and Afghan troops who were ambushed in a town in Afghanistan's Kunar Province.
The Kentucky serviceman, who also retrieved the bodies of four American soldiers under heavy fire, will be the first living Marine to get the medal in 41 years, WKYT reported
It is a great recognition...
POTUS seems to be doing this more this last year.....PLEASE tell me this is not political but just the timing of the war and recognition of true heros in an appropiate time frame.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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