Exemplifies spirit and ethos of these warriors

May 1, 2008 at 1:45 pm | In Afghanistan, Courage Under Fire, Heroes, Soldiers |

FOX News - Master Sgt. Brendan O’Connor received the Distinguished Service Cross in a ceremony Wednesday at Fort Bragg for his actions in Afghanistan. The award is second in achievement only to the Medal of Honor. “He made a conscious decision to do whatever it took to get to our wounded soldiers,” said Maj. Sheffield Ford, the team’s commander during the June 2006 battle in southern Afghanistan. With his Special Forces team surrounded by Taliban fighters, O’Connor volunteered to lead a relief force to rescue two wounded colleagues.

He got to the edge of a field, but intense Taliban machine-gun fire made him turn back. After shedding his body armor so he could press himself flat in a ditch, he crawled the last 200 feet to the wounded soldiers. Taliban fire was so close that it sheared off the blades of tall grass around the ditch as he crawled. Finally reaching the two wounded soldiers, he stabilized them and led the relief force back to safety. “Master Sgt. O’Connor exemplifies the spirit and ethos of these warriors,” Olson said. “We stand in quiet awe and in the deepest admiration.”

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  1. This is where the nobility of the human spirit really comes out. It seems that in a society which should be so thankful for all its blessings, the opposite, leftism thrives.
    It’s great to see that we still produce such noble young heroes as well.

    Comment by aurora08 — May 2, 2008 #

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