This Brave U.S. Soldier Earned Eleven Bronze Stars (4 With A V For Valor) In 14 Tours

Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler. USASOC

Michael Daly, Daily Beast: 11 Bronze Stars, 14 Tours, 1 Widow

Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler, the first American to die in Iraq against ISIS, is a reminder of those who have sacrificed in two wars that never really ended.

Fourteen combat deployments.

Eleven bronze stars, four with a V for valor.

Seventy hostages rescued in the final mission.

One flag covered coffin, to be met by one new widow.

Four sons now without a father, one a new baby.

One posthumous Purple Heart.

And 319 million Americans in perpetual debt to Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler, 19 years-old at enlistment, 39 when he became the first American solider to die in Iraq since the war supposedly ended there.

WNU Editor: Our prayers are with his family and loved ones.