Watch this video tribute to Cpl. Jason Dunham, who today posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Back on May 8, Matt Burden, author of Blog of War, and proprietor of Blackfive, told us the incredible story of Jason Dunham during our Someone You Should Know segment on Pundit Review Radio.
The White House ceremony honoring Jason moved President Bush to tears today. Say what you want about George Bush, but this man cares deeply about the troops. I can’t even tell you how many stories I’ve read on milblogs about his various visits to Walter Reed.
Bush Bestows Medal of Honor on Fallen Marine
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 â?? In April 2004, Cpl. Jason L. Dunham, a Marine Corps recruit from a small town in upstate New York, did something extraordinary: he threw himself on an exploding grenade to shield two men in his unit as they battled insurgents on a road in Iraq, losing his own life.
On Thursday, just one day after Corporal Dunham would have turned 25, President Bush bestowed the Medal of Honor, the nationâ??s highest military award, on him and presented it to his mother and father in a somber East Room ceremony attended by his relatives and friends, as well as prominent members of the government.