Dakota Meyer says the incident is still difficult to think
about because his team members died.
Posted on 08/12/2011 7:47:41 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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He will be honored during a White House ceremony September 15.
Meyer will be the third living Medal of Honor recipient from service in the current war theaters.
No longer on active duty, Meyer returned to Columbia, Kentucky.
"The award honors the men who gave their lives that day, and the men who were in that fight," Meyer said, according to a Marine newsletter. "I didn't do anything more than any other Marine would. I was put in an extraordinary circumstance, and I just did my job."
Meyer, who serves in the Inactive Ready Reserve of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve as a sergeant, said in November that he didn't want to discuss details of the incident because it's still difficult to think about.
"I was a failure," Meyer told CNN last fall. "My guys died. That was my whole team."
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Former Marine to receive Medal of Honor for controversial 2009 battle
Just another photo-op to Obama.
If it were me, I’d rather have it mailed.
When Klinton, his wife, and staffers were aboard my aircraft carrier, I didn’t go up to the hangar bay to see him speak. I went to the propulsion plant and did maintenance when the officers ordered us up there. I have no time or patience for politicians. He showed his contempt for us when he stole our towels, VIP bathrobes, and other ship’s stores.
The local country club has given him a lifetime membership, several golf outfitters have given him all manner of gear, and Sports Illustrated is going to do a write-up about him and his love of golf.
Yep, extraordinary circumstances and seriously sub-par reaction. Zero and Tiger Woods are having a contest for the worst late-career collapse.
Sounds like a bitter memory to be reckoned with.
This isn’t about Obama. This is about Corporal Meyer. Its his photo op, and I for one salute him.
The husband met him last month...he and Meyer participated in an outing for Wounded Warriors in Action in Atlanta. www.woundedwarriorsinaction.org. Hubby got to hear his story first hand. Hubby understood his bitterness..guess they called in for artillery or air strikes and it was denied from what I understand.
Semper Fi!
No doubt. When Barbara Bush christened my ship, there was dancing in the streets. When Bubba and Billary came out two years later, everybody wanted them to go vacation in Europe instead.
It was Obastard’s rules of engagement that killed those Marines.
Yep.
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