Lieutenant Conner News Today

>> thank you. >> let us pray. almighty god, in this moment and in the company of those gathered here, we seek your presence in grace, as a nation, today we lift up, we honor, we give thanks for your strength and power reflected in the heroic acts of lieutenant conner. let this mans heroic actions give our nation, our world courage and hope to always act in the face of danger and overwhelming forces that seek to destroy. lord, help us, recall the gallant actions of this man, fill all who hear and...

Death in order to save his battalion and achieve victory for freedom and those people that were with him, many of them now gone, said it was the single bravest act theyve ever seen. he had shellsropped right on him. aim at me, he said. aim at me. well, they missed him by feet. but he kept calling in more rounds, more rounds until the blanket of fire broke the german advance and the enemy retreated, saving so many american lives. lieutenant conners courageous actions killed roughly 50 german sold...

Where he plunged into a shallow ditch that provided minimal protection from the advancing enemy heavy machine gun and small arm fire and with rounds around him, he calmly directed multiple fire munitions from his prone position until the enemy was forced to halt the advance and seek cover behind a nearby dike. for three hours lieutenant connor remained in his compromised position and during the repeated onslaught of german infantly which at one point advanced to within five yards of his position...

Counter attacked the front left flank with 600 troops. six marks and six tanks and tank destroyers. lieutenant conner having recently returned to his unit after recovering from a wound in an earlier battle was working as the intelligence officer in the third battalion command post at the time of the attack. understanding the devastating effect that the advancing enemy armor could have on the battalion, lieutenant conner volunteered to run straight into the heart of the enemy assault to get to a ...

-- sun mariner. their grandchildren, ethan, idan, ana bell and bela rose. thank you for being here. its great. great genes. lieutenant conner must be looking down from heaven, proud of this incredible honor, but even prouder of the legacy that lives on in each of you. so true. finally, to the two previous medal of honor recipients who have joined us today, we salute your service and we thank you on behalf of one very large, very powerful, and very grateful nation. thank you. where are you sittin...

Merle laid in a shadow he laid down in this hole, this shallow ditch where they could still see him. there was only one foot deep. in front of the lone american soldier were six german tanks and hundreds of german soldiers. as bullets flew around him, lieutenant conner directed artillery fire and each time successfully decimating the enemy. they knew he was there and they couldnt get him. at one point a german soldier came within five yards of lieutenant conner before being shot and killed. for ...

Never really talked about how he had risked his life to save others. >> he had a place about that big in his hip that was about like a -- a softball i would say that -- a hole in his hip like that. and i ask him many times, you know, what happened and tried to get him to explain and he would try to tell me some things, but he just didnt want to talk about it. >> lieutenant conner returned from war and started a tobacco farm in kentucky. he never bragged about his acts of bravery. and barely spok...