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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Solus on October 15, 2013, 04:53:27 PM
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Remember this photo the next time you see this man's CIC with his hands folded at his crotch as the US. Flag is presented.
Wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan, he struggles to salute as he receives Purple Heart.
Josh Hargis, whose special operations unit is based at Fort Benning, Ga., was wounded Oct. 6 when an Afghan woman detonated a suicide bomb vest in Panjwai in Kandahar Province and triggered a series of other explosive devices. The blast killed four members of Hargis' 3rd Army Ranger Battalion and wounded 12 other American soldiers.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/15/salute-seen-around-world/2988755/
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FTA:
"Despite his wounds, wrappings, tubes and pain, Josh fought the doctor who was trying to restrain his right arm," according to the message Josh Hargis' commanding officer wrote to Taylor Hargis. He then "rendered the most beautiful salute any person in that room had ever seen."
"I cannot impart on you the level of emotion that poured through the intensive care unit that day," the commander wrote. "Grown men began to weep, and we were speechless at a gesture that speak volumes about Josh's courage and character."
Splendid behavior, indeed.
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Gutsy!