Highest Military Honor Awarded to Marine, Dakota Meyer

Dakota Meyer saved 36 lives from an ambush in Afghanistan and was awarded the nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, on September 15.

Former Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyers, from Greensburg, Ky., was in Afghanistan's Ganjgal Village, Kunar province in Sept. 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The 23-year-old Marine scout sniper repeatedly ran through enemy fire to recover the bodies of fellow American troops. He has since left the Marine Corps, but will become the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.