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  • Medal Of Honor Recipient Florent Groberg

    11/18/2015 4:34:04 PM PST · by GrandJediMasterYoda · 1 replies
    youtube.com ^ | 11/17/15 | Stephen Colbert
    Medal Of Honor Recipient Florent Groberg tephen sits down with Retired U.S. Army Captain Florent "Flo" Groberg, who was awarded the Medal Of Honor by President Obama on November 12.
  • Medal of Honor recipient Groberg: 'Now I have a big responsibility'

    10/29/2015 6:52:10 AM PDT · by pabianice · 6 replies
    Stars and Stripes ^ | 10/29/15 | Dickstein
    WASHINGTON — Army Capt. Florent Groberg left Afghanistan in 2012 with a mangled left leg that required more than 30 surgeries and confined him to a hospital bed for three months. It was the most difficult time of his life. “All you can do is sit there with your own thoughts for hours and hours and hours and hours,” he told Stars and Stripes on Monday. “You don’t sleep, you’re on drugs for the pain and things like that. “All I could think was just, ‘How?’” In Afghanistan, Groberg was charged with protecting a formation of senior leaders on Aug....
  • Wounded Army Captain Who Was Hospitalized for Three Years Awarded Medal of Honor [truncated]

    11/13/2015 7:10:53 AM PST · by huldah1776 · 26 replies
    People ^ | November 12, 2015 | Tierney McAfee
    President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a French-born former U.S. Army captain who tackled a suicide bomber and saved other soldiers' lives while serving in Afghanistan. Florent "Flo" Groberg, 32, was given the highest U.S. military honor in a ceremony Thursday morning at the White House, making him the tenth living person to receive the award for actions in Afghanistan. (Seven others have received the medal posthumously.)