Sgt. Dakota Meyer
23 years old from Greensburg, Kentucky
Embedded Training Team 2-8
On September 15, Sgt. Dakota Meyer was awarded the Medal Of Honor by President Obama for his actions on Sept. 8, 2009 in the Ganjgal Valley of Afghanistan when he and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez saved 36 fellow Marines when they, and the Afghan military members they were helping to train, came under attack by Taliban insurgents.
Posted in Marine, navy, warrior spirit, Wednesday Hero | Tags: afghanistan, medal of honor, war on terror
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When my daughter wanted a book on how to get into the Naval Academy, all she could find were books that told her how hard it was, how selective they were, how very few could achieve it. My daughter brushed them off, but I wondered how many kids would be discouraged by that approach and decided to write a book explaining how to achieve the goal, not why kids couldn’t. I stressed how teens can solve the problems that stood in their way rather than why they couldn’t, how they could get where they wanted to go rather than why they couldn’t get there. That worked for my daughter and I had no doubt it would work for others. From what I hear from readers, it’s true.
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Heck, what an “accomplishment”. There can’t be many people who can add “saved 36 Marines” to their resume…
By: Nicola Parry on November 2, 2011
at 2:16 am
Not the way Dakota did it. amazing man.
By: Jacqui Murray on November 2, 2011
at 2:51 am