Behind him inside the kill zone. So, don held onto that grenade. And he pulled it close to his body. And he bentso over it. And then as one of the men said, all of a sudden, there was a boom. The blast threw the lead soldier up against a boulder, men were riddled with shrapnel, four were medevaced out. But everyone else survived. Don had absorbed the brunt of the explosion with his body. He saved the lives of those next to him and today, we are joined by two men who were with him on that patrol, Sergeant William hacker and specialist michael moline. For decades, dons family only knew that he was killed in action. They had heard that he had stepped on a landmine. All those years, his gold star family honored the memory of their son and brother, whose name is etched forever on that granite wall not far from here. Late in her life, dons mother, evelyn, finally learned the full story of her sons sacrifice. And she made it her mission to have dons actions properly recognized. Sadly, nearly
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