Former U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle White Awarded the Medal Of Honor For Actions In Afghanistan

Medal Of Honor Recipient Recalls Friends Who Fell In 'Ambush Alley' Every Day -- Christian Science Monitor

Sgt. Kyle White, the seventh living recipient of the Medal of Honor for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, had 'no doubt' he was going to die trying to rescue his friends in Afghanistan in 2007.

True courage is having a perfectly clear sense of the profound peril ahead, and the willingness to face it anyway. And that, President Obama said in a White House ceremony Tuesday, was what Sgt. Kyle White did in Afghanistan in November 2007.

For his “acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty,” Sergeant White was awarded the Medal of Honor Tuesday, becoming the seventh living recipient of that honor for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Medal of Honor is the nation’s highest award for valor.

“His actions bore witness to the depth of his love and the breadth of his honor,” Army Maj. Gen. Donald Rutherford said at the ceremony.

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