Marine praised by Bush won't get Medal of Honor

[Contrary1]

"Friendly fire"? :wtf:

SAN DIEGO - A Marine sergeant singled out by President Bush for throwing his body on a grenade to save his comrades in Iraq will receive the prestigious Navy Cross rather than the nation's highest military award, military officials said.

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Rosa Peralta said she was informed during a meeting with Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski that a committee could not agree on awarding the Medal of Honor to her son, who Marine Corps officials say was first wounded by friendly fire. She said the general mentioned the friendly fire aspect as part of her son's death during the discussion.

Peralta was shot several times in the face and body during a house-to-house search in Fallujah on Nov. 15, 2004, during some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

According to a report by a Marine combat photographer who witnessed the act, Peralta lay wounded on the floor of a house and grabbed a grenade that had been lobbed by an insurgent. He absorbed the blast with his body, dying instantly..."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_re_us/death_by_grenade

[niyad]

1. words fail me.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Not even a Purple Heart Bandaid?

Those bastards are cold . . .

[melody]

3. What else do we expect during the GOP's tenure? n/t

[progdonkey]

4. fits the Cheney model...

When someone shoots you in the face, it's your fault.

[WarbirdForObama]

5. What do you say to this

This guy gives his life for a war, created by Chicken Hawks, based on lies, then the Rodent Vacationer in Chief can't even get off his lazy ass and fight for getting this American Hero what he truly deserves.

I'm speechless.

[texasleo]

6. Born in Mexico.

:tinfoilhat:

[othermeans]

7. Damn illegals sucking up all the benefits from us Amerikans.

[othermeans]

8. What I don't understand is the neurologist says he was going to die anyway! How does that affect

the fact that he grabbed the grenade and pulled it under him?