Another marine to receive Medal of Honor

For action in September, 2009 in the Konar province of Afghanistan -

“I lost a lot of Afghans that day,” Meyer told a Marine Corps journalist. “And I’ll tell you right now — they were just as close to me as those Marines were. At the end of the day, I don’t care if they’re Afghans, Iraqis, Marines or Army; it didn’t matter. They’re in the same [expletive] you are, and they want to go home and see their family just as bad as you do.”