Warrant Officer John W. Hermann (Pictured Right)
7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st MLG
A Marine warrant officer received the Silver Star on July 15 during a short ceremony in Afghanistan. On Feb. 26, 2008, then-Staff Sgt. John W. Hermann, an explosive ordnance disposal technician, accompanied a team with Company B, 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, on a combat reconnaissance patrol through Dahaneh, a village in southern Afghanistan held by Taliban forces.
While on the patrol, the team came under a barrage of fire from rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, machine guns and small-arms fire. Hermann, according to the award citation, jumped out of his vehicle with another Marine and ran toward a group of entrenched fighters.
You can read the rest of Warrant Officer John W. Hermann’s story here.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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I am always on the lookout for a great family vacation location. There are just so many places to go, and it is tough when you’ve never been there before. Memphis is one of those locations. When checking out this Memphis-savvy travel guide, I was amazed at all the things we could take the kids to do in Memphis. I’d personally start at the Children’s Museum, then Jerry’s Sno Cone, and of course, we’d have to check out the zoo!
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Remember that sty on my eye? The one I got before we went camping. The one that gave me pink eye. Well, guess what — it’s giving me problems. Bad ones.
I still have said sty. However, my eye lid started to swell up the other day. Back to the eye doctor. My sty is now morphed into a soft tissue infection. We thought an oral antibiotic would solved the problem. Well, my face got worse. By face, I mean my whole face. Well, the one side of my face. If I walk into the heat, my right side of my face swells up and my eye swells shut. I learned this the hard way — picking Madison up from camp. I freaked a little bit and immediately drove to the eye doctor.
Pretty much, I have an infection in my face now. I’m stuck instead with air conditioning and am stuck putting ice packs on my face to control the swelling. We are in a holding pattern and hoping the antibiotic finally kicks in and starts working.
Anybody want to trade lives right now?
