President Obama recently bestowed his 9 Medal of Honor since being elected, and this one had a truly heartbreaking story behind it. The Medal of Honor is the highest honor bestowed by the president onto soldiers and usually given 2 years or less after ones tour has happened. This Medal of Honor was given to Specialist Leslie Sabo Jr. who fought in the Vietnam war 42 years ago was originally nominated a few years after his tour was over, but he didn't receive a medal then, his paperwork "fell through the cracks." A few years ago a researcher discovered more to his story about how even after suffering life threatening injuries, he crawled to an enemy bunker and pulled the pin on a grenade savings the lives of all of his fellow comrades that day. When this was discovered he was once again nominated for the medal and this time he got it. His wife and comrades from that day all attended the recognition ceremony and there was relief and happiness shown in that this man finally received what he always deserved for his service to our country.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/highest-honor-ultimate-sacrifice-102211016.html
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