{"id":51704,"date":"2014-06-19T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51704"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:36:33","slug":"kyle-carpenter-to-be-awarded-the-medal-of-honor-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51704","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Carpenter to be awarded the Medal of Honor today"},"content":{"rendered":"

At about 2:15 Eastern Time today, the President will award medically retired Kyle Carpenter the Medal of Honor. He shielded his mates from a grenade blast with his own body. From USAToday<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I’d ever thought about what I would do in that situation,” Carpenter said by phone from Columbia, S.C., where he attends the University of South Carolina. “I don’t think there is any way to know until you’re faced with it. But I did what I was trained to do, and that is protect my fellow Marines at all costs.”<\/p>\n

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Fellow soldiers pleaded for him to “fight” and “hang on.” He recalled their voices sounded far away.<\/p>\n

“I thought about my family,” he said, “and how sad and disappointed they would be that I didn’t make it out of Afghanistan alive.”<\/p>\n

He said a final prayer. That’s the last thing he remembers before waking up in a room at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., with Christmas stockings hanging on the walls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can watch Carpenter receive his medal here – but keep in mind that it’s an honest-to-goodness miracle that he’s even here among us. <\/p>\n

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