We may have a feckless leader, but we do well to remember that we have men like Kyle Carpenter as well.
Via Daily Mail:
President Obama today told a fearless Marine who lost an eye and most of his jaw after shielding a comrade from a grenade blast in Afghanistan that his heroism ‘will inspire for generations’ as he presented him with the Medal of Honor.
Retired Corporal William ‘Kyle’ Carpenter, 24, from Flowood, Mississippi, received the nation’s top military award in the East Room of the White House on Thursday afternoon, becoming the eighth living recipient for actions in Afghanistan or Iraq.
It comes nearly four years after he threw himself on top of a grenade to save his friend, Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufrazio, while they stood guard on a rooftop in the Helmand province in November 2010.
‘Anybody who has had a chance to get to know this young man, you’re not going to get a better example of what you want in an American or a marine,’ Obama said at the ceremony.