Purple heart. Matt is our hero because of how he lived, says the reverend who spoke at matts memorial service. He didnt miss life. He lived life. Service was a proud tradition in matts family. His father lowell r. Hanson jr. Served in the army. One of matts brothers is currently active duty army, while the other is in the army reserves. Matt himself was born in germany on a military base. As mary, matts mom puts it, matt to go rogue and join the marines. Matt had a strong work ethic in high school, says his father lowell. He used to get up at 4 00 in the morning to milk kowrks then go to school, then on to football practice and back to work on the fannie mae farm. Other people noticed and were impressed by his work ethic appeared i was proud of him. He was determined that when he got old enough he would join the marines and serve his country. Growing up, matter matter was known for his blue eyes and sneaky smile, and aide way of talking himself out of anything. He had an easygoing mann
Quite difficult to assess in the heat of the moment. The humanitarian organizations were preparing for, quite rightly, a worst Case Scenario where without they were very large numbers of people trapped on the mountain. I think a combination of possibly overestimation of the number of people there originally. The fact people are insensitive resourceful, and night after night numbers of people were getting themselves off the mountain, and the involvement of the peshmerga forces, in rescuing groups of people, particularly some Syrian Kurdish forces, interesting people from the mountain. It became clear later on in the process that there was a far smaller number than we thought, and that the best way to getting them off with to reinforce the land route that had already become established. We are confident now that there is nobody stranded on mount sinjar. Who is trapped there. That isnt to say that its perfectly peaceful situation there. There are still isil forces around the mountain, but