Given In Full Measure...Cradling Grenades: Volume I (Remembering Usmc Medal Of Honor) (Volume 4)

In two wars, twenty-eight U.S. Marines dived on live grenades to protect others from a lethal blast. Five lived to wear a Medal of Honor, our nation's highest award for valor in combat. They considered themselves ordinary guys, seldom talking about battles and heroics. Their wives and children and friends learned the facts from others. Donald Leroy Truesdell was the first, placing himself between his troops and a charged grenade in Nicaragua, knowing full well the risk he was taking. Richard Keith Sorenson, Carlton Robert Rouh, Jacklyn Harrell Lucas, and Richard Earl Bush showed themselves capable of this extreme valor In World War II. In this new series of biographies, U.S. Marine veteran Terence W. Barrett, PhD, presents the true stories of these incredible men who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of the country and their fellow Marines. Barrett accepts that the responsibility to remember these men extends to all Americans who have the good fortune to be citizens in a nation established to be a free Republic. He ensures that their service and sacrifices will not be forgotten.

• | Author: Terence W. Barrett, Ph.d.
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 662 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1545162379
• | ISBN-13: 9781545162378