Posted on 10/29/2015 6:52:10 AM PDT by pabianice
WASHINGTON — Army Capt. Florent Groberg left Afghanistan in 2012 with a mangled left leg that required more than 30 surgeries and confined him to a hospital bed for three months. It was the most difficult time of his life.
“All you can do is sit there with your own thoughts for hours and hours and hours and hours,†he told Stars and Stripes on Monday. “You don’t sleep, you’re on drugs for the pain and things like that.
“All I could think was just, ‘How?’â€
In Afghanistan, Groberg was charged with protecting a formation of senior leaders on Aug. 8, 2012. When an insurgent armed with a suicide vest attacked the group, Groberg tackled him, and the vest exploded. The Army said his actions that day saved many lives.
For his heroics, Groberg will receive the Medal of Honor on Nov. 12 from President Barack Obama.
But receiving the military’s highest honor for battlefield valor was far from Groberg’s mind during his early days at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He spent much of the time grappling with questions about his future: Could he stay in the Army? Would he ever run again? Why did he survive?
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It is heartwarming to know America produces young men like this.
When it seems our future is bleak, stories like this lift us all up.
Bless you, Mr. Groberg.
A shame he has to meet America’s biggest racist bigot as a result of his heroism.
So I went to his Wikipedia page, and there was a pic of Obama visiting him on 11 Sept 2012.
A shame he had to meet America’s biggest racist bigot as a result of his heroism.
Corey Dickstain recycled an old article and hoped no one would notice?
I am confused. The article is dated this week. I just thought it interesting to see a photo of BO on the day of the Benghazi attack, just because so little is known about what BO was doing that day. Evidently he was at Walter Reed after 2:15PM, per his schedule of that day.
“Why did he survive?” You survived because someone has bigger plans for you.
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