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Congressional Gold Medal winners to be honored

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 12:54am

OGDEN -- Utah veterans of the 110th Infantry/442nd Combat team who received a Congressional Gold Medal in October will be honored at a luncheon Saturday.

Steve Fukushima, a member of the committee organizing the event, set to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. said he expects close to 1,000 people to attend the luncheon.

Attendees will include families of an estimated 170 Utah veterans of the unit.

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In this undated photo released by the U.S. Marines, Sgt. Dakota Meyer poses for a photo while deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Ganjgal Village, Kunar province, Afghanistan. The White House announced the 23-year-old Marine scout sniper from Columbia, Ky., who has since left the Marine Corps, will become the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in decades for his actions in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines)

Memorials set as Marine gets Medal of Honor

Dylan Lovan The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 10:28am

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Dakota Meyer saved 36 lives from an ambush in Afghanistan and the former Marine will collect the nation's highest military honor at the White House on Thursday. While he is receiving the Medal of Honor, Meyer's slain comrades will be memorialized in hometown ceremonies at his request.

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Master Sgt. Steven Walter, left, describes how Medal of Honor nominee Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry saved fellow solders lives. Sgt. 1st Class Jerod Christopher Staidle, center, and Master Sgt. Reese Wayne Teakell listen nearby. (SHNS photo by Lui Kit Wong / Tacoma News Tribune)

Medal of Honor awaits Army Ranger who lost hand saving others

Christian Hill, Tacoma News Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 2:36pm

Medal of Honor awaits Army Ranger who lost hand saving other lives

Scripps Howard News Service

The radio message was short and devoid of details. But it was enough to let the Army Rangers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state know that Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry and others were in trouble.

"Hey," Petry said, "my hand is gone."

After being shot in both legs and losing his right hand in a display of uncommon valor in Afghanistan, Petry continued to bark orders at the fellow Rangers who responded to the scene of the attack.

"He was yelling at the medic to loosen up the tourniquet on one of his legs because that was I guess what was most painful to him," Sgt. 1st Class Jerod Staidle, Petry's platoon sergeant, recalled Thursday.

Petry's "conspicuous gallantry" will be honored July 12, when President Obama presents him with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for combat valor.

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