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Posted at 6:43pm on Mar. 29, 2008 Marine awarded Silver Star for bravery
By liberalrepublican
I was reading the San Diego Union Trib at lunch today and came across this article:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20080328-1911-bn28silver.htm...
They are truly the best we have. It made me proud as an American and Californian to read this. God Bless them all.
"Roedema, 25, was shot twice and collapsed to the ground.
A Marine tried to rescue him and was killed in the process, he recalled Friday. Then Lance Cpl. Moses Cardenas rushed to Roedema's aid, dragging him 100 yards to safety while shooting at the insurgents. Cardenas suffered two bullet wounds in the process.