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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. ....
Washington to do what it does best and that s cherry pick small spending-cutting items here and there. what this report underscores and what we re hearing from both congress and the president is that this just shows how difficult it is going to be to rein in the deficit and how much sacrifice it s going to require from both sides, both politically and from americans. jenna: yeah. it ll be interesting to watch. we haven t each gotten to the taxing side, so we hope to have you all back to do that in the future. josh, doug and sam, thank you so much for joining us on this veterans day. thank you. jon: and now a very special story to bring you, jason dunham was a 22-year-old marine corporal killed in action in iraq back in 2004. now he has a huge new guided missile destroyer. they destroyer that bearss name. what did he do? a live report next. ....
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 ....
This is the uss jason dunham, massive missile destroyer, 510 feet long. close to 10,000 tons. named in honor of marine corporal jason dunham who was 222 years old when he gave his life in duty serving his country and saving several other marines. joining me right now, retired marine sergeant bill hampton. bill is all the way out of washington state so you re lucky to have the warm weather although you told me you missed the snow. if you could a little bit, bill, if you could talk to me about what you remember on that day. you have two children now. young babies. you re blessed to have them. absolutely. tell me what you remember about that day. sacrifice that he made four us, for me and corporal miller. only thing i can do is just keep ....
Connected with this for the past six and a half years is part of a healing process to us. because they re stories of jason, and we ve heard stories we didn t know and can the sailors and marines have heard stories they didn t know. and i kind of keeps it kind of keeps jason alive. reporter: jon, i heard it said earlier today that this is a tragically beautiful story of self-sacrifice, and that probably is the best way to say this. this ship will be commissioned the uss dunham will be commissioned this coming saturday on the 13th. jon? jon: orlando salinas in ft. lauderdale, thank you so much for that report. and on in this veterans day we thank jason dunham ask all of our veterans. we ll be right back. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. ....