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Title: Obama bestows Medal of Honor on soldier who showed 'guts' in suicide attack
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URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... -guts-suicide-attack/75648840/
Published: Nov 13, 2015
Author: Gregory Korte
Post Date: 2015-11-13 01:09:55 by sneakypete
Keywords: None
Views: 1408
Comments: 16

WASHINGTON — President Obama bestowed the nation's highest military honor on an Army Captain who rushed a suicide bomber attacking his patrol in Afghanistan three years ago.

But retired Army Capt. Florent Groberg said the Congressional Medal of Honor doesn't belong to him.

"This medal belongs to the true heroes," he said. "It also belongs to their families, true heroes who live with that day every day missing one of the members of their families."

Those heroes, he said, are the four other Americans killed in the attack: Army Command Sgt. Major Kevin Griffin, Army Major Thomas Kennedy, Air Force Major Walter Gray and U.S. Agency for International Development foreign service officer Ragaei Abdelfattah.

"The medal is the greatest honor you can ever receive," Florent told reporters Thursday in the rain outside the White House. "So I'm honored, overwhelmed, but I hope to become the right carrier for them and better myself as a human being for the rest of my life." President Barack Obama bestows the nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor to Florent Groberg during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The former Army captain received the medal after he tackled a suicide bomber while serving in Afghanistan. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images

Groberg, or "Flo," as Obama called him, was born in France in 1983, grew up in Bethesda, Md., and became a U.S. citizen the same year he graduated from high school. He competed on the track and cross-country teams at the University of Maryland where, Obama said, he worked hard to shave seconds off his times.

"As he found out later, a few seconds could make all the difference," Obama said Thursday at a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House. "Training. Guts. Teamwork. What made Flo a great runner also made him a great soldier."

Groberg was on his second deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, serving on a personal protection detail for Army Col. James Mingus, now a brigadier general.

It was on that detail on Aug. 8, 2012, that his patrol was ambushed in a coordinated attack involving motorcycle decoys and two suicide bombers. Groberg spotted the first bomber, grabbing him by his vest and pushing him back until he fell, triggering an explosion knocking Groberg back 15 or 20 feet, breaking his leg and rupturing his eardrum.

Groberg spent nearly three years recovering at Walter Reed National National Military Medical Center. After 33 surgeries, he still walks with a slight limp. Retired from the military, he now serves as a civilian at the Department of Defense.

"And every day that he is serving, he will be wearing a bracelet on his wrist — as he is today — a bracelet that bears the names of his brothers in arms who gave their lives that day," Obama said.

"The truth is, Flo says that day was the worst day of his life. And that is the stark reality behind these Medal of Honor ceremonies — that for all the valor we celebrate, and all the courage that inspires us, these actions were demanded amid some of the most dreadful moments of war," he said. "That's precisely why we honor heroes like Flo — because on his very worst day, he managed to summon his very best."

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Click on the link and read for yourself that there was a white NCO that also tackled the bomber,yet only the non-white guy got a Medal of Honor for it.

I guess if you are a white guy that does the same thing a black guy does,you don't get any credit. A non-white guy who also happens to be a naturalized citizen. BTW,the army thought enough of this young Captain to put him in for a MoH,but they didn't promote him to Major on his way out the door? WTF is behind THAT?

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Click on the link and read for yourself that there was a white NCO that also tackled the bomber,yet only the non-white guy got a Medal of Honor for it.

SO I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE NOTICING THIS CRAP!

This guy is race baiting 24/7. He is the worst POS president America has ever seen!

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