Based on what the FR Buchanan Brigades say, this can't be true as no one good comes from Mexico.
Of course the truth is Peralta was more of an American than many of those who are born in the United States.
Get him the medal!!!
It's one thing to get hit while in the heat of battle...its another to pull death to your body to save others from it...a true hero.
"Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend."
Mike is right. This is MOH courage.
Viet Vet
Based on what the FR Buchanan Brigades say, this can't be true as no one good comes from Mexico.
Of course the truth is Peralta was more of an American than many of those who are born in the United States.
Amazing story of bravery and human goodness. God bless him and God watch over his family. Thanks for sharing his incredible story.
God bless this man...how he cared for his brothers.
“Tell your kids, your grandkids, what Sgt. Peralta did for you and other Marines today.”
Tell the story of Sgt. Peralta!
"reached out and grabbed a grenade hurled by an insurgent"
*****TERROIST*****
Give him his Medal of Honor. Now.
Give him the MOH, and if Rall says anything, hunt his ass down and hurt him. Badly.
My Junior High School was named after a local resident who jumped on a grenade to shield his buddies from the blast and was killed...
He recieved the Medal of Honor for his bravery as should this United States Marine
He deserves the medal and more. I hope he is in heaven with almighty God, right this very moment.
What an outstanding young man. His sacrifice will never be forgotten by those brothers he saved and their families.
These are the stories the media should be focusing on, instead of trying to tear the military down.
Thanks for the ping Tonkin
There was a time when we had either experienced a vacuum of heroes or heroes we honored had no true hold to the title (sports figures, movie stars, etc.). Thankfully, those days are gone.
This new dawn of heroism arrived abruptly on one of the darkest days our young country had experienced in her 228 years as policemen, firemen and average everyday citizens looked the horror and the consequences of terrorism in the face and didn't flinch.
And now, we see it again - that flame of heroism, that heart of valor - expressed in the last moments of Sgt. Rafael Peralta's life. Without a single selfish thought, Sgt. Peralta took a live grenade and cradled it against his own body, thereby protecting his brothers in arms from harm. Truly, he looked the horror and consequences of terrorism in the face and didn't flinch.
Thank God for Sgt. Rafael Peralta those like him; our brave troops who fight these terrorists on their home turf so that we don't face them on our own.
One, two, three, four...
I love the Marine Corp!
And this is an ex-Squid talking.
I'm sure if the family agrees a place could be found for this man in Arlington.
May God bless this man.
In the fierce battle for the Iraqi town of Fallujah, Peralta, with gunshot wounds to his head and body, reached out and grabbed a grenade hurled by an insurgent, cradling it to his body to save others from the blast.
The explosion in the back room of a house injured one Marine, but four others managed to scramble to safety.
Peralta, 25, an immigrant from Mexico who enlisted the day he got his green-card work permit, was declared dead en route to a field hospital.
“If he hadn’t done what he did, a lot of us wouldn’t be seeing our families again,” said Lance Cpl. Travis J. Kaemmerer, who witnessed the blast.
God Bless Him.