Our new hero- Heroic Teen Earns Silver Star and She is Female

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From: NavyNamVet1966

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This is a real Hero. I would be proud to claim her as a daughter. Forward this on to let others know what kind of people we have in the military. With people like her we need to do anything to let them know we support them 110% This is why I go to events to support our troops.

Mike Bradley


Heroic Teen Earns Silver Star [bump]

March 22nd, 2008 by CJ [Bump: video added below]

The Houston Chronicle has a great story today about a 19-year old Army Specialist named Monica Lin Brown who provided first aid to injured Soldiers after a roadside bomb explosion and shielding them from enemy fire with her body while she provided the treatment.

Dodging insurgent gunfire, a 19-year-old Lake Jackson soldier used her body to shield five injured comrades after a roadside bomb struck her convoy in Afghanistan last spring. That act of bravery has earned her the Silver Star.
Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown is only the second woman since World War II to receive the medal, one of the nation's highest military awards given for gallantry in combat.

As you can see above, Monica is not a big person. Yet she managed to use her training to successfully move these injured Soldiers to safety, exposing herself to deadly enemy fire. Everyone that knows Monica already knew she was capable of doing great things.

Monica Brown helped the group pack care packages for soldiers, Moreno said. She also helped them tie yellow ribbons on trees along Oyster Creek Drive in Lake Jackson in honor of the soldiers, she said.
"She is just an amazing young woman who is very down to earth and full of life," Moreno said.