On February 11, 2013, Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha will receive the Medal
of Honor for his courageous actions while serving as a Section Leader
with Bravo Troop, 3d Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat
Team, 4th Infantry Division during combat operations against an armed
enemy at Combat Outpost Keating, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province,
Afghanistan on October 3, 2009.
Members of Red Platoon, 3-61 Cavalry
Regiment, including Staff Sgt. Clint Romesha (front row, second from
right), pose for a picture just after arriving at Combat Outpost
Keating, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, 2009.
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 17, 2012) -- President Barack Obama
has announced that Spc. 4 Leslie H. Sabo Jr., a rifleman with the 101st
Airborne Division, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor May 16
for his actions during the Vietnam War.
Sabo is credited with saving the lives of several of his comrades in
Company B, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry when his platoon was ambushed
May 10, 1970, near the Se San River in eastern Cambodia. Sabo shielded a
comrade from an enemy grenade and silenced a machine-gun bunker before
he was killed.
Sabo's widow, Rose Mary Sabo-Brown, and his brother, George Sabo, have
been invited to the White House for the Medal of Honor ceremony.
President Obama recently telephoned Sabo-Brown to inform her that her
late husband would receive the nation's highest award for valor.
"It was a very emotional day," she said. "A very, very emotional day. I
couldn't even sleep that night. And when I did fall asleep finally and I
woke up the next morning, I went, 'Now wait a minute, did I dream this?
Is it really real?'"
"I couldn't be more proud of him," Sabo-Brown said. In her home near New
Castle, Pa., Sabo-Brown has set up museum of sorts in tribute to her
late husband and his comrades who were killed in Cambodia.
Even though his platoon was ambushed from all sides by a large enemy
force, Sabo charged the enemy position, killing several enemy Soldiers.
He then assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their
fire away from friendly Soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to
retreat. While securing a re-supply of ammunition, an enemy grenade
landed nearby. Specialist Sabo picked it up, threw it, and shielded a
wounded comrade with his own body - absorbing the brunt of the blast and
saving his comrade's life.
Although wounded by the grenade blast, Sabo continued to charge the
enemy's bunker. After receiving several serious wounds from automatic
weapons fire, he crawled toward the enemy emplacement and, when in
position, threw a grenade into the bunker. The resulting explosion
silenced the enemy fire, but also ended Specialist Sabo's life. His
indomitable courage and complete disregard for his own safety saved the
lives of many of his platoon members.
Sabo's unit nominated him for the Medal of Honor, but the paperwork was
lost until Tony Mabb, a Vietnam veteran of the 101st Airborne Division
and a writer for the "Screaming Eagle" association magazine, came across
a thick file on Sabo while on a research trip to the National Archives
military repository in College Park, Md.
Mabb contacted his congresswoman, who recommended DOD reconsider a medal
of valor for Sabo. Mabb also made contact with Sabo's widow, Rose Mary
Sabo-Brown, who lives in New Castle, Pa.
"The Leslie I know would give his life to anybody," she said. "He would.
He would give you the shirt off his back. That's the kind of man he
was."
(Soldiers magazine reporter Elizabeth M. Collins interviewed Rose Mary
Sabo-Brown in Pennsylvania last week and contributed to this article,
which is based on a White House release.)
this is a private post, not the daily war on terror news...
pls watch this, i know little bit long, but it deserved it
i want to hear your thoughts and comments, mine after the video
so, after i saw this report, i'm really hard to find words for now
i'm proud to be hungarian, JUST for Him, and for everyone else who served, fought and died for the U.S. freedom
there are several other hungarians in the same "line", from korean wars, vietnam, iraq etc.
special thx for them for their service!
all of the words in the video, from 11:55....i want to say that too...!
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