President Bush recently awarded the Congressional Medal of honor to a 19 year old Army specialist posthumously. McGinnis was in Iraq, manning a Humvee's .50-caliber machine gun and saw a grenade flying toward the Humvee. He tried to deflect it, according to Defense Department accounts, but it fell inside the vehicle. His training called for him to warn his comrades, then jump from the gun turret and escape. Instead, Spc. McGinnis jumped into the vehicle, deliberately placing his body between the grenade and the rest of the crew. He died in the explosion. The other four crew members survived.I wonder how I'd respond in his situation. I don't think you just behave this way in a given situation unless this is who you are at the deepest core of who you are. That's the kind of person I want to become.
It reminded me of these words from Jesus. I'll bet the other four people who lived would agree.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
-John 15:13
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Awesome. That's going in my message next week. I guess you'll have to come. It's the first service in the new building. :)
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