Speaker 1: Pushkin. This year, America turns two hundred and fifty, two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years of strength and heroism.
Speaker 2: You love the man to your right, to you left,
Speaker 2: to your front of your ear. You're willing to die
Speaker 2: for him, and you will to die for your country.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years of struggle and survival. They
Speaker 1: hit the first gunship and he yells, I'm hit, I'm hit,
Speaker 1: I'm going down.
Speaker 3: It shocked me. The first casualties we took. It was
Speaker 3: like the hammer dropping, you know, and the people were dying.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years of sacrifice and bravery.
Speaker 2: I realized this is a suicide vest I didn't care
Speaker 2: about my well being. I wanted to make sure he
Speaker 2: was as far away as possible, as quickly as possible
Speaker 2: for everybody else.
Speaker 1: A lot of times over the past two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years, our American experiment seemed like it would fall apart.
Speaker 1: At the scenes, our.
Speaker 2: Great specific outpost in the Hawaiian Islands is ruthlessly bombed.
Speaker 3: Pearl Harvill was being bombed. I wanted to show that
Speaker 3: I'm an American, so I volunteered for the army.
Speaker 1: When you look closely at those moments. What held us
Speaker 1: together was ordinary people rising to the occasion and extraordinary circumstances.
Speaker 3: That's the nature of courage, not being unafraid, but confronting
Speaker 3: fear and danger in a selfless fashion.
Speaker 1: I'm JR. Martinez and on this season of Medal of
Speaker 1: Honor Stories of Courage, we're celebrating two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: years of America's highest award because bravery is in all
Speaker 1: of us.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here and say I was afraid,
Speaker 3: but these were my guys. Your job was to look
Speaker 3: out for them.
Speaker 2: If you have to come home, I'll bring home.
Speaker 1: That's my duty, it's my honor because the same qualities
Speaker 1: that carried us through the first two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: years will help us in the next two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: We are country of heroes. We believe in heroes.
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