From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2006 - 08:39:08 PDT
Just in case anyone was wondering about his defiance. A photographer caught it on camera. You gotta love Marines for showing this kind of sand.
http://californiaconservative.org/images/_one_finger_salute.jpg
At 11:26 AM -0400 6/29/06, Graham Wooden wrote:
>Interesting enough, my father also received a Bronze Star and three Purple
>Hearts for his tour of duty in Vietnam for the MC and Navy. This is a good
>story about a real hero.
>
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>Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike"
>or just "Gunny". He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a
>legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for
>disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his
>second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at
>a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not
>to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper
>fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explains. So, protected by just a
>helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal
>officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5 ft. deep
>and 8 ft. wide crater.
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