president obama today awarding retired army captain florent groberg with medal of honor. he calls august 8th, 2012, the worst day of his life. he was participating in a security escort in afghanistan when two terrorists on motorcycles ambushed the group. groberg described the attack to cnn. as soon as he started moving towards our patrol i left my position to go meet him because he s a threat. and, you know, i need him away. so i hit him with my rifle. that s when i felt i hit a vest under his clothing. at this point all i can do is, you know, just get him away as far as we could. so grabbed him by his vest and, you know, try to push him down, throw him. four americans died in that attack. command sergeant major kevin griffin, major tom kennedy, major david gray and ragaei fattah with the state department. groberg saved even more lives by