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April 14, 2004. this young man was in iraq. he was on patrol with a handful of other marines. they had to go on patrol, they saw suspicious caravan of cars. they approached the cars. dunham walked up first, and when he was walking up, one of the insurgents jumped up out of the car, began to choke him. at that point the other marines came to his aid. dunham, they say, screamed, no, no, he has a grenade. at that point this insurgent, the bad guy dropped the grenade. corporal dunham took off his cef lahr helmet kevlar helmet, laid it on top of that grenade, laid his body on top of it, and it exploded. he had been talking with marines and said, look, i believe this kevlar helmet, it s strong. it could take a grenade if it had to. he didn t know that really just days after that he would actually be putting that into play. ....
He was just 23 years old. orlando salina is onboard the u.s.s. jason dunham. we are just off this beautiful vessel. this is the u.s.s. jason dunham. it is a beautiful destroyer. 510 feet long. 10,000 nearly 10,000 tons of one mean missile destroyer. it has nearly 400 evenlessed men and women, and i m told that every single one of those men and women on this ship know the full story about jason dunham. april 14, 2004. he didn t know he would be mortally wounded that day. he had no idea he would save his brothers lives. a few days before he was talking with other machines. he told them his helmet would ....
In passing is israel s right to defensible borders. we had an understanding with the bush administration that was in a letter of guarantee given to the israeli government on april 14, 2004, that said israel had a right to defensible borders. wasn t going to back to the 1967 line, armistice line. that letter is still up in the air. how important was this meeting, though, and more importantly, coming out together yesterday between obama and netanyahu because so much had been made about the fact that maybe there was not a good relationship going on. how important was that picture of them together? i think it s extremely important because we have to remember, whatever disageemerees we have with the obama administration in the past or maybe in the future, we have mutual adversaries like iran who is racing to cross the nuclear threshold. they have to understand that there s no daylight between us because if they think that there s a gap between the u.s. and israel, they re gonna start ....