Changed utterly
By lex, on May 24th, 2008
Read the story of Ross McGinnis – son, juvenile delinquent, soldier, hero, Medal of Honor winner:
On the morning of Dec. 4, Spc. McGinnis was riding atop a Humvee, manning a 50-caliber machine gun as the truck rolled through the violent Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiyah.
An insurgent on a rooftop threw a grenade at the Humvee. Spc. McGinnis tried to bat it away, but the explosive dropped into the Humvee, where the other four soldiers essentially were trapped.
Spc. McGinnis shouted a warning to them, then jumped back inside the vehicle.
“An average man would have leapt out of the gunner’s cupola to safety,” the Army said in its official account. “McGinnis decided to stay with his crew. Unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his own life … he threw his back over the grenade.”
And add his name to the list:
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven