Here's a good article about survivor's giult

[unhappycamper]

Survivors cope with guilt over grenade heroism
By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today
Posted : Friday Sep 21, 2007 6:50:24 EDT

Army Staff Sgt. Ian Newland spotted the enemy grenade inside the Humvee. Almost simultaneously, he saw Spc. Ross McGinnis, 19 - a gunner standing in the turret of the vehicle - lower himself onto it.

“I saw him jam it with his elbow up underneath him,” said Newland, who was sitting inches away. “He pressed his whole body with his back plate to smother it up against the radios.”

The heat and flash of an explosion followed, and McGinnis was killed. Hours later, after surgery for shrapnel wounds, Newland realized the enormity of what happened: McGinnis had sacrificed himself to save four other soldiers in the Humvee on Dec. 4.

“Why he did it? Because we were his brothers. He loved us,” Newland said.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/09/gns_grenadehero_070920/



uhc comment: Many times you hear Iraq vets say "I should be with my Brothers."

[NYVet]

1. They also say that they believe in the mission (N/T)