Business Insider -
18 Jun 2014 20:37

Retired Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter is set to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for bravery, on June 19. Carpenter will be the third Marine to be awarded the medal since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Carpenter, now 24-years-old, will be recognized for covering a grenade with his body to save the life of a fellow marine in 2000, when he was a 21-year-old lance corporal. Both Carpenter and the soldier, his friend Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufazio, were badly woun...
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