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Title: Semper Fi: Marine Who Saved 36 in Afghanistan Receives Medal of Honor
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201 ... to-marine-who-saved-36-forces/
Published: Sep 15, 2011
Author: Ap
Post Date: 2011-09-16 15:30:19 by Mad Dog
Keywords: words are such, small, things
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President Obama on Thursday bestowed the nation's highest military honor on Dakota Meyer, a young and humble Marine who defied orders and barreled straight into a ferocious "killing zone" in Afghanistan to save 36 lives at extraordinary risk to himself. "You did your duty, above and beyond," Obama told Meyer after reciting his dramatic story. Though the corporal and a fellow Marine were going against orders -- commanders considered their effort too dangerous -- they were doing what they thought was right, Obama said. The president placed the Medal of Honor ribbon around Meyer's neck, patted his back and shook his hand as the audience in the White House East Room applauded. At age 21, Meyer charged through heavy insurgent gunfire on five death-defying trips in an armored Humvee to save 13 Marines and Army soldiers and an additional 23 Afghan troops pinned down by withering enemy fire. Meyer killed at least eight insurgents despite suffering a shrapnel wound in his arm as he manned the gun turret of the Humvee and provided covering fire for the soldiers, according to the military. He had been supporting a patrol on Sept. 8, 2009, into a village in the Ganjgal Valley on the day of the ambush. Meyer and the other Americans had gone to the area to train Afghan military members when, suddenly, the village lights went out and gunfire erupted. About 50 Taliban insurgents on mountainsides and in the village ambushed the patrol. As the forward team called for air support that wasn't coming, Meyer, a corporal at the time, begged his command to let him head into the incoming fire to help. Four times he was denied his request before Meyer and another Marine, Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez, jumped into the Humvee and headed into the fray. For his valor, Rodriguez-Chavez, a 34-year-old who hailed originally from Acuna, Mexico, would be awarded the Navy Cross. "They told him he couldn't go in," said Dwight Meyer, Dakota Meyer's 81-year-old grandfather, a former Marine who served in the 1950s. "He told them, `The hell I'm not,' and he went in. It's a one-in-a-million thing" that he survived. Meyer and Rodriguez-Chavez began evacuating wounded Marines and American and Afghan soldiers to a safe point. Meyer made five trips into the kill zone, each time searching for the forward patrol with his Marine friends -- including 1st Lt. Michael Johnson -- whom Meyer had heard yelling on the radio for air support. With Meyer and Rodriguez-Chavez ready to test fate a fifth time, a UH-60 helicopter arrived at last to provide overhead support. Troops aboard the chopper told Meyer they had spotted what appeared to be four bodies. Meyer knew those were his friends and he had to bring them out. "Dakota, I know you've grappled with the grief of that day, that you said your efforts were somehow a failure because your teammates didn't come home," the president said. "But as your commander in chief and on behalf of everyone here today and all Americans, I want you to know it's quite the opposite." Meyer chatted informally Wednesday evening, on a patio outside the Oval Office, over a beer. In the ceremony, Obama praised Meyer's humility and work ethic, noting that he would not even take a call from the president during his shift at a construction job because he was working. He's now out of the Marines. So they two arranged to talk over his lunch hour. Obama jokingly kidded him with thanks for taking the call. The deaths of Meyer's comrades prompted an investigation into events that day, and two Army officers were later reprimanded for being "inadequate and ineffective" and for "contributing directly to the loss of life." Along with Meyer's friends, a fifth American -- Army Sgt. Kenneth W. Westbrook, 41, of Shiprock, N.M. -- was fatally wounded in the ambush. Meyer had said he would be humbled by the memory of his fallen comrades as he received the award Thursday. There were to be separate memorial events, including one at a Columbus, Ga., cemetery for gunnery sergeant Johnson, a father of three who served nearly 13 years in the Marine Corps. Will Duke, one of the organizers of the tribute, said the memorials spoke volumes about Meyer. "I can tell by his actions, not only the actions he took in earning the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan but also the actions he is taking now. Essentially by requesting these memorial services for his fallen comrades, he's saying this is about them," Duke said.
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#30. To: nolu chan (#29)
Chyea...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Pitt blew a 24-3 lead - they played so horribly you'd think they were running Boofer's business...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
An excerpt from this article... www.mohm.o rg/recipient_pa...oh_recipient_history.html The first Medals of Honor were presented by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to six of the surviving members of Andrew's Raiders on March 25, 1863. While these were the first medals presented, the first heroic act for which the Medal of Honor was given occurred February 13, 1861. It was on that date, Army Assistant Surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin rescued 60 soldiers of 2d Lt. George Bascom's unit at Apache Pass, AZ. The Medal of Honor was also presented to several individuals for heroic acts performed before the Medal of Honor was authorized by Congress in December 1861.
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
You want this soldier to make YOUR political statement for you. He's done enough for you already. Honor him...enough of this bullshit... And your nonservice has you talking about things you don't know about, you just think you do..... Here, I will put it in plain and simple terms for you........ "Demanding" respect for accomplishments/incompetance that do not "Command" respect is about as bullshit as it gets.... Especially when during the course of these accomplishments/incompetance all vestiges of honor, loyalty, courage, duty, country, unselfishness, integrity and repect get kicked to the curb!!!! Those items that I listed above about honor, duty, loyalty....etc....etc... (and many more) is what is expected from every last service member every single day (on and off duty) of his career...... Yet your boy who is supposed to be their CIC displays none of those traits!! Why is that???? (I'd give even money that he thinks those traits are B.S.)... So if you think he should be respected for acting like a putz then you might as well go elsewhere, cause you aren't going to get any here and you have some learning to do.... And oh by the way your Messiah gets blown off everyday, most of it doesn't make it to the front pages because the MSM doesn't want him looking bad..... but never the less it happens...... So I'm not the only one who feels this way..... in fact more and more people are seeing what I see... so get used to it..... I will honor/respect the CMH winner because his accomplishments "Command" honor/respect, and will withold those same things from the "ZERO"...... end of story.....
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Take your self serving rant and shove it up your ass. Obama has done more for the troops than your bitch Bush ever did.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
The troops don't like Obama. Look at the polls everyone knows that. Obama promised to bring the troops home. He lied and started another illegal war. If you were to meet Obama would you try to turn him on by wearing Spandex?
Why not post THEM. If you were to meet Obama would you try to turn him on by wearing Spandex? Please leave me out of your obsessively voyeuristic homo erotic fantasies...thanks...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
LOL!!! I saw that and UNDERSTOOD it also. LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
. As I'm sure that you already know, talking about HONOR with the filth aka DwarF is like trying to discuss transcendental numbers with a pile of horse shit. Less than useless, and WAY more than just foul.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
{chuckle}
What!!! No fuck you!!!! I'm Hurt!!!! Sounds like it's that time of the month... Here this might help.... When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Not surprising your 'personal saying' is mindless pap.
------------------------------------- ...and, as usual, grammatically incorrect...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Why would a picture of a box of Midol help?
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Shouldn't surprise you. The Left has learned not to screech 'baby killer' over the past 3 decades. That they still view the military as a path for 'dead enders' is clear enough if you pay attention. Remember Kerry in 04? 'you end up in Iraq'? Then there is the routine downplaying of 'type' of service, a game played by those that never served. If you didn't walk 'point' in a combat zone, you aren't 'good enough' for them. The bottom line is 5% of all living Americans have served this nation via the military...and the Left despises them all, they just know saying it as public figures kills them politically.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
I have a personal saying. 'All my Hero's are dead.' Not surprising your 'personal saying' is mindless pap. Not surprising you'll use any topic for mindless personal attacks Biffy. Its okay, I understand why.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Its Okay, I Understand Why. by Badeye ---------------- Shortest book ever written. Ghostwritten, I mean.
------------------------------------- There's no apostrophe in "heros". BE must be taking posting lessons from Mammy.
Desperate for attention again today, huh Biffy? Poor thing, mommy simply doesn't like you biff. Just accept it.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
nobody gives a shit in a chat forum, skippy, except for you and Fredo.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Someday you might learn that posts like this make you look like a hypocrite.
And Badeye, of course, else why comment on it.
You'd think after all these years he'd apply a few grammar and punctuation lessons learned. But no, he never has.
Ping me if that idiot ever posts something new and original, would ya.
------------------------------------- Some posters seem to permanently lack this ability.
That's going to be hard since I have him on bozo. Doesn't everybody?
Another word you don't understand the meaning of, ming? lmao. I don't whine about grammar and spelling. How's that research on Reagan in the 76 primaries coming, btw? rotfl
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Yes, I'm asking too much of you. I like to check out his idiocy every once in a while then I sign on and he's gone.
------------------------------------- I only know he's been here when someone quotes a post of his. Based on that, he still has absolutely nothing on interest to say.
. I understand that you libTURD SCUM have NO HONOR. I understand that you libTURD SCUM HATE the USA and OUR armed forces. I understand that you libTURD SCUM live to shit on your betters. Still ... it's difficult for NORMAL folks to understand why you libTURD SCUM shit and piss all over a thread about a MAN that ALL of you gibbering little bitches combined would not equal HALF as much of a man as HE is? Oh yeah. I/we forgot. That YOU are foul libTURD SCUM. SCUM (LOL! come on SCUM show us ALL what FILTH you are. Let it ALL hang out you foul little bitches!) (To you NORMAL folks, do YOU SEE WHAT these libTURD SCUM really are?) (OF COURSE YOU DO!)
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Fuck off, nutwit. You only post these articles hoping to hog some of this guy's glory. It gives losers like you and badeye a chance to pretend you were on this guy's team, while in reality you've both got a sorry, nutless military past. You fucking rabid nutcase, lol.
------------------------------------- I jsut wonder what the hell your mommy did to you, Biffy, when I read this stuff you post. Its never about politics, or topics of the day. Its always about other posters with you. Constantly. Very sad.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
I find it hilarious you brag about how many facebook friends you have. Dipshit.
------------------------------------- . LOL! I understand that little libTURD SCUM such as you "thinks" that it works that way biffffffffffffffffy boy, but it does not. You see biffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffy boy HONOR isn't something that you can steal or borrow. I post these threads to HONOR them bifffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffy boy, that, AND to allow libTURD SCUM such as YOU biffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffy boy, to show all of the lurkers what foul miserable slime you libTURD SCUM really are. YOU don't know ANYTHING about HONOR you little gibbering, never served anywhere, at anytime, in ANY military on the face of this earth, libTURD SCUM. That's because YOU are a COWARD, and a craven PARASITE, who is content to cash the checks that better people than you have paid for. YOU are the lowest form of life on the face of this earth. You are nothing but libTURD SCUM. SCUM LOL! and SCUM, I don't need to steal or borrow anybody else's HONOR. Unlike you SCUM, I have my own. I got it the old fashioned way SCUM, I EARNED it . Gibber on SCUM! LMAOAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Its never about politics, or topics of the day. Its always about other posters with you. Constantly. Very sad. It's pretty obvious that bifffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffy boy has serious mental and emotional issues. We can only guess at what happened in his life to cripple his soul so badly. But we can ALL agree on one thing ... "libTURDISM is a terminal mental disease." WE feel your pain biffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffy boy.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Yep. The fact I have a lot of friends around the world really seems to bother him for some reason I can't quite fathom.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
Ya we are "domestic terrorists"..... The following are just some of the potential threats to the security of our country according to Janet Napolitano: Participants in Tea Parties Animal Rights Activists African Americans Christians Enviromentalists Patriots Jews Right and Left Wingers And the list goes on and on, of course you knew that if you are a gun owner or a military vet (God help you if you are both!) your name is already on the list.
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Yep.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
I was surprised to see some of those people on that list, it looks like she hates people on both sides of the fence politically....
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Ranting lunatics never surprise.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
A notable exception was the award to Capt. William McGonagle who was commanding officer of the USS Liberty. That particular MOH was presented by the Secretary of the Navy. See here for more about this by a Liberty crewman.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#31. To: Fred Mertz (#27)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#32. To: nolu chan (#29)
The Medal of Honor is almost always presented by the President and Commander-in-Chief. A notable exception was the award to Capt. William McGonagle who was commanding officer of the USS Liberty. That particular MOH was presented by the Secretary of the Navy. See here for more about this by a Liberty crewman.
#33. To: war (#25)
Your service has ziopla to do with the bullshit that you are posting here.
#34. To: CZ82 (#33)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#35. To: war (#34)
#36. To: A K A Stone (#35)
The troops don't like Obama. Look at the polls everyone knows that.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#37. To: We The People (#28)
he would not even take a call from the president during his shift at a construction job because he was working.
#38. To: CZ82 (#33)
#39. To: war (#36)
#40. To: war (#34)
Take your self serving rant and shove it up your ass.
#41. To: Badeye (#2)
I have a personal saying. 'All my Hero's are dead.'
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#42. To: Biff Tannen (#41)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#43. To: CZ82 (#40)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#44. To: CZ82 (#15)
(Edited)
No they don't.... And I doubt it will change anytime soon either, by some of the responses I'm seeing on this thread.....
#45. To: Biff Tannen (#41)
#46. To: Badeye (#45)
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#47. To: Biff Tannen (#41)
Not surprising your 'personal saying' is mindless pap.
#48. To: Biff Tannen (#46)
#49. To: Skip Intro (#47)
#50. To: Badeye (#49)
nobody gives a shit in a chat forum, skippy, except for you and Fredo.
#51. To: mininggold (#50)
nobody gives a shit in a chat forum, skippy, except for you and Fredo.
#52. To: mininggold (#50)
#53. To: Skip Intro (#47)
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#54. To: Fred Mertz (#52)
You'd think after all these years he'd apply a few grammar and punctuation lessons learned.
#55. To: Biff Tannen (#53)
Ping me if that idiot ever posts something new and original, would ya.
#56. To: mininggold (#50)
#57. To: Skip Intro (#55)
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#58. To: Biff Tannen (#57)
#59. To: Skippy the french fries cowboy Intro, biffffffffffffy boy tannen, ddwarF, whinyold, lucysidiotmommy, ALL of you libTURD SCUM, ALL actually SANE people (#58)
#60. To: Mad Dog (#59)
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#61. To: Biff Tannen (#60)
#62. To: Badeye (#61)
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#63. To: Biff Tannen (#60)
#64. To: Badeye, bifffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff boy tannen (#61)
I jsut wonder what the hell your mommy did to you, Biffy, when I read this stuff you post.
#65. To: Mad Dog (#64)
#66. To: Badeye (#44)
The bottom line is 5% of all living Americans have served this nation via the military...and the Left despises them all, they just know saying it as public figures kills them politically.
#67. To: CZ82 (#66)
#68. To: Badeye (#67)
Yep.
#69. To: CZ82 (#68)
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