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To: ErnBatavia
I know there were several Marines who jumped on grenades in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

The one I remember best was a guy who'd had a discussion with one of his buddies on the subject just a few days earlier and thought that using a helmet to confine the blast might allow the person who jumped on the grenade to survive. A few days later, while out on patrol, his squad encountered a group of terrorists and got into a gunfight with them. While their concentration was focused on these terrorists, another snuck up behind them and chucked a hand grenade into their midst. This Marine (I believe he was a lance corporal) spotted the grenade, ripped his helmet off, and dove on the grenade. The grenade partially muzzled the grenade's blast and this heroic Marine might have survived, if a single fragment hadn't struck him at the base of his throat and penetrated into his brain. He was medevaced to a hospital where he died almost two weeks later.

I know there were several other Marines who made this ultimate sacrifice, but this is the one that has stuck with me over the past few years.

78 posted on 05/25/2006 12:09:28 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson ("I see storms on the horizon")
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79 posted on 05/25/2006 1:31:25 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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