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These american heros honored. >> i've not only been at these ceremonies, i know of a few medal of honor recipients. one from the second world war, a couple from the vietnam war. they're amazing people to be around. so full of stories when they recount them to you, you hang on their every word. they're normal every day americans who at one moment in life rose up to be here r -- heros, saving their comrades. to honor such people in such an apolitical fashion as happens here in the united states really is a testament to their current, their bravery, the fact that they would keep running back in u...

Himself to intense fire as he moved from casualty to casualty. a b-40 rocket impacted meters from sergeant rose. knocking him from his feet and injuring his head, hand and foot. ignoring his wounds, sergeant rose struggled to his feet and continued to render aid to the other soldiers. sergeant rose exposed himself to enemy fire as he attempted to hoist wounded personnel up to the hovering hem continuer which was unable to land due to the terrain. the medevac was aborted and the helicopter crashed due to the fire sustained. sergeant rose continued to expose himself to fire to treat the wounded....

Had we not come out that day, we were extracted, we probably would have never left." that's from the man in charge that day. the ceremony is to begin now. let's listen. truth is, they're running a few minutes late. lots of reasons for that from day to day. a lot going on there. back the john roberts briefly while we wait for this ceremony to begin. john? >> you know, shep, if you want to know, we can never know what captain rose actually went through. particularly he's a medic. if you want to get some sense of what he went through, rent be movie "hacksaw ridge." that's the story of private dos...

Constant fire. as bullets flew in every direction, mike fired with one arm while dragging the injured soldier back to the perimeter with the other. soon after they returned to their unit, a rocket-propelled grenade exploded nearby and shots smoldered metal into mike's back and into his leg. he was seriously, seriously wounded. the shrapnel left a gapping hole in mike's foot. for the next 48 excruciating hours, he used a branch as a crutch and rescued the wounded. mike did not stop to eat, sleep or care for his own serious injury as he saved the lives of his fellow soldiers. on the second and f...

Safety. this was just the beginning of mike's harrowing four-day mission. mike and his unit slashed through the dense jungle, dodged bullets and explosives and everything that you can dodge because they threw it all at him and continually returned fire as they moved deeper and deeper and deeper into enemy territory. mike rescued those in distress without any thought for his own safety. i will tell you, the people with him could not believe what they were witnessing. he crawled from one soldier to the next, offering words of encouragement as he tended to their wounds. on the second day, one of ...