"...Dodging insurgent gunfire, a 19-year-old Lake Jackson soldier u
sed 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..."
LINK2Let's hear it for the medics...
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