Medal of Honor Recipient Recalls Deadly Ambush
09.19.2011 at 02:35am
Medal of Honor Recipient Recalls Deadly Ambush – CBS 60 Minutes – Read the Story – Watch the Segment.
"I have never seen the like."
That is what a helicopter pilot who had watched a 21-year-old Marine stave off a Taliban ambush that threatened to overrun his unit told "60 Minutes."
The Marine was Dakota Meyer a Kentucky farm boy who just this past Thursday received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award, from President Obama at the White House. Meyer was on a mission in the Ganjgal Valley of Afghanistan, where he repeatedly ran a gauntlet of enemy fire in a desperate effort to save his fellow Marines.
