President Biden will award the Medal of Honor to three soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan
, causing their vehicle to roll over a compression plate that triggered an improvised explosive device that caused the vehicle to burst into flames.
Cashe began pulling his comrades from the vehicle even as his fuel soaked uniform caught on fire, returning again and again as the flames spread to pull wounded soldiers from the wreckage."Sgt. Cashe saved my life," said Sgt. Gary Mills, who was with Cashe that day, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times."With all the ammo inside that vehicle, and all those flames, we’d have all been dead in another minute or two.
He was flown to a field hospital in Iraq and then to Germany and San Antonio, Texas, but the wounds were too severe."I did not realize it at the time, but he is the closest thing to a hero that I likely will ever meet," Air Force Maj. Mark Rasnake, the doctor who treated Cashe before he succumbed to his wounds
"This is a place where the word ‘hero’ is tossed around day in and day out, so much so that you sometimes lose sight of its true meaning."Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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