President Obama awards the Medal of Honor to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dakota Meyers - pics

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President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dakota Meyers, 23, from Greensburg, Ky. , Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Cpl. Meyers was in Afghanistan's Kunar province in Sept. 2009 when he repeatedly ran through enemy fire to recover the bodies of fellow American troops. He is the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.













U.S. first lady Michelle Obama hugs Mike Meyer, father of Dakota Meyer, after Dakota was awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House in Washington September 15, 2011. Former active duty Marine Corps Corporal Meyer, the third living recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving 36 lives from an ambush while serving as a member of a Marine embedded training team in Afghanistan on September 8, 2009.




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