A 19 year old woman received the Silver Star for action in Afghanistan. Army Specialist Monica Lin Brown was awarded the medal for using her body to shield five wounded comrades as she pulled them to safety. This, after a roadside bomb blasted a convoy of Humvees, with exploding ammunition going off all around out of the burning vehicles.This shows that heroes are not only in books and films. They also exist around us, in real life. That should give us encouragement. She said that she was operating on "automatic" and just doing what was necessary to save the injured soldiers. She seemed to be quite modest about this, and acted like it was not something out of the ordinary.
I am proud that someone like this has chosen to serve our country.
New York Daily News (March 10, 2008). Retrieved on March 13, 2008, from http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/03/10/2008-03-10_female_medic_gets_historic_silver_star.html?ref=rss
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