sergeant ashley randall. accepting on behalf of her grandfather private rivera. private rivera distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity while serving as an automatic rifleman with 2nd blood toon 3rd infantry division during combat operations against an armed enemy in korea on may 23, 1951. early that morning, a large hostile force emerged from the dense fog and viciously attacked private rivera and his comrades. private rivera immediately responded by firing with deadly accuracy until his weapon jammed. without hesitating, he threw his rifle down and began to engage the enemy with his pistol and
vietnam on april 4th, 1969. while entering a heavily wooded section, first class and his company encountered an enemy bunker complex. following tactical artillery on the heavily secured army position, the platoon was selected to assault and clear the bunker fortifications. moving out ahead of his platoon, he charged the first bunker claul crawling to the roof and without hesitating he proceeded to two additional bunkers, both of which he destroyed in the same manner of the first. sergeant first class advanced 100 meters through the trees before coming under intense hostile fire selecting three men to accompany him, he maneuvered
he s also a lifesaver. cecil williams, a visually impaired man, fainted and fell on the subway tracks. without hesitating, his guide dog orlando jumped on to the tracks and tried to pull him back. witnesses did get the engineer of an oncoming train to brake but not in time to prevent at least several cars from running over both man and dog. miraculously, they suffered only minor injuries. now they re up against a new battle. 11-year-old orlando is set to retire as a guide dog. williams could lose his trusty guide because his insurance will only pay for an actively working dog. today people on social media have maxillofacial iobilized to aid. we ll keep you posted on how you can help on our facebook page. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis
representatives for a-rod flooded the media yesterday in an attempt to contradict the yankees report that the star third baseman is injured with a quad strain. reporters caught up to rodriguez briefly at yankee facilities in tampa. i feel great. feel great. nothing? now rodriguez says he s ready to play and he sought a second opinion without approval from the yankees front office. he urged his doctor michael gross on espn radio. let me tell you for the record, i have examined alex. i looked at the mri and i spoke to him on the phone. based on that, i can tell when you i looked at his mri this morning, i didn t see anything very significant. i spoke to him on the phone. i asked him specifically, alex, do you have any pain? and he said, no. without hesitating. he said can you clear me to play? i said i can t. i never examined you. but how do you feel? do you think you re ready to play? and he said absolutely. yankees gm ryan cashman not
military to make those decisions in realtime. a new york times article says you touch it, you don t own it policy on syria. the same can be said about his drone policy. as long as there aren t boots on the ground, it s your war. that s the quote there. is there sort of an iraq hangover here? is that why it gets democratic support? you ve got john brennan as the appointee. and brennan s policies on the drones is one of give us control. i think that s why democrats are sort of hesitating about do we criticize? do we look at oversight? what the drones allow us to do is have boots on the ground in places we didn t before. it allows us to have autonomy with the u.s. intelligence gs agencies, and democrats are hesitating to bring it to the table. but with congress and our inability to find compromise, it s a new day, and we need to