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To: smokingfrog
Running through the hail of enemy fire to the area of heaviest contact, he was assisting in the development of a defensive perimeter when he encountered several enemy at close range. He killed the enemy but was painfully injured when blown from his feet by a grenade. In spite of this injury, he assaulted and destroyed an enemy machinegun position that had pinned down 5 of his comrades beyond the defensive line.

Read that and you will see a real man!

3 posted on 10/17/2010 3:49:47 PM PDT by packrat35 (I got your tag line..)
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To: packrat35
I've been reading through the Medal of Honor citations over the past few months. Many of these men make John Wayne and Clint Eastwood look like wimps.

And the one female recipient, Dr. Mary Walker, was just as impressive.

10 posted on 10/17/2010 4:07:21 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.")
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