There he presented the Medal of Honor to the parents of Corporeal Jason Dunham a Marine who while serving in Iraq dove and covered a live grenade with his Kevlar helmet.
With this medal we ask the god who commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves, to wrap his arms around the family of Corporeal Jason Dunham, a Marine who is not here today because he lived that commandment to the fullest.
Jessica Lynch, the U.S. soldier who had been held prisoner at a hospital in the city before she was rescued, reported CNN correspondent Jason Bellini, embedded with the Marine Expeditionary Unit, 15th Artillery.