dThis is what Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry answered the question of what he told President Obama at his award ceremony - very well said!
"And what I -- what I told him was, it makes it a little bit easier to receive this high honor today, sir, because knowing a lot of my heroes, my family and my friends are in the audience. And those are a lot of the -- when we think heroes, there's a lot -- those who are serving in the military, a lot of these generals and colonels and all these officers and sergeant majors and guys -- and young men and women when they join the service, who end up putting 20 years in, and still dedicated and saying, yes, I will, yes, I will -- 30 years, 30-plus years.
It's -- how is that not a hero? To me, it's easy when I see those guys and say, now this -- when I wear this, I wear it for you too because they're still answering the call, and those overseas too.
That -- that's part of -- where I got to say, hey, what's your message going to be? My message is, never forget your -- the -- your fallen heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice, but embrace the living, those continuing to serve in the uniformed services and those overseas continuing in the fight."
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