Semper Fi, Marine......(Marine to receive Medal of Honor for Iraq heroism) [View All]

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...another superb warrior standing a watch at St. Peter's place. (Oh, Cpl. Dunham had more intestinal fortitude in his pinky cuticle than the entire Bush clan).

(CNN) -- President Bush on Friday will announce that the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, will be awarded posthumously to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham.

In April 2004, Dunham was leading a patrol in an Iraqi town near the Syrian border when the patrol stopped a convoy of cars leaving the scene of an attack on a Marine convoy, according to military and media accounts of the action.

An occupant of one of the cars attacked Dunham and the two fought hand to hand. As they fought, Dunham yelled to fellow Marines, "No, no watch his hand." The attacker then dropped a grenade on which Dunham threw himself.

Dunham was critically wounded in the explosion and died eight days later at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/medal.honor/index.html