On December 4, 2006, in Iraq, Army Specialist Ross A. McGinnis gave his life to save four fellow soldiers:
President Bush is expected to award a Clarion County soldier the Medal of Honor in June, which would make Spc. Ross A. McGinnis the fifth soldier who served in Afghanistan or Iraq to receive the nation’s highest honor. McGinnis, 19, of Knox [Pennsylvania] died Dec. 4, 2006, from wounds he suffered when he threw himself on a grenade to save the lives of four other soldiers in his Humvee. Citing anonymous sources, the Army Times on Monday said the president has approved the award. Maj. Nathan Banks, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Defense Department can’t comment on the matter until the White House makes the announcement.
Black Five has more about SPC McGinnis.
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I don’t think it took him a split second to make up his mind; I don’t even think that he made up his mind at the time that he did what he did. I think his mind was made up years ago, when as a boy, he decided to be the soldier that he became. It is men like him that give testimony to the fact that we will never lose any war, no matter how great or how many the enemy and no matter how great or how many the number of liberals that we have in Congress, that would like it to be otherwise.
The man does what he does in a split second, while Congress hesitates for months to authorize appropriations without earmarks, and that speaks volumes about both of them.