To: in the Arena
I'm not sure who they are talking about, Sgt Peralta or a Marine who was killed last summer when he dove on a hand grenade to protect his squad (sorry, I don't remember his name, but the story was posted here on FR). The Marine tried to use his helmet to help muffle the blast, but was struck under the chin by a piece of shrapnel that penetrated his brain and he died a few weeks later.
30 posted on
02/26/2005 9:06:24 PM PST by
Stonewall Jackson
(Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
To: Stonewall Jackson
33 posted on
02/26/2005 10:41:36 PM PST by
in the Arena
(James Wayne Herrick, Jr. Captain/US Air Force - MIA - Laos - 27 October 1969)
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