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   From: NoObedienceSkills@NoSubservienceSkills.NoComplianceSkills   
      
   The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pride   
   in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to   
      
   LANCE CORPORAL EMILIO A. DE LA GARZA, JR.   
      
   UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS   
      
   for service as set forth in the following CITATION:   
      
   "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and   
   beyond the call of duty while serving as a machine gunner with Company E,   
   Second Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division, in the Republic of   
   Vietnam on April 11, 1970. Returning with his squad from a night ambush   
   operation, Lance Corporal De La Garza joined his Platoon commander and   
   another Marine in searching for two enemy soldiers who had been observed   
   fleeing for cover toward a small pond. Moments later, he located one of the   
   enemy soldiers hiding among the reeds and brush. As the three Marines   
   attempted to remove the resisting soldier from the pond, Lance Corporal De   
   La Garza observed him pull the pin on a grenade. Shouting a warning, Lance   
   Corporal De La Garza placed himself between the other two Marines and the   
   ensuing blast from the grenade, thereby saving the lives of his comrades at   
   the sacrifice of his own. By his prompt and decisive action, and his great   
   personal valor in the face of almost certain death, Lance Corporal De La   
   Garza upheld and further enhanced the finest traditions of the Marine Corps   
   and the United States Naval Service."   
      
   RICHARD M. NIXON   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_A._De_La_Garza   
      
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