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Matthew commons. our country is rich with blessings but our greatest blessings of all are the patriots like john and all of you that stood and many of the people in this room. i exclude myself and a few of the politicians. who like, john, carry our freedom on their shoulders, march into the face of evil and fight to their very last breath so that we can live in freedom and safety and freedom and peace. now it is my privilege to ask valerie on stage to accept the congressional medal of honor on behalf of the hero she loved and the hero our nation will forever remember, technical sergeant john c...

Would the military aide please come forward and read the citation? thank you. >> the president of the united states of america has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor posthumously to technical sergeant john a. chapman, united states air force. for ga lantly at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. technical sergeant john a. chapman distinguished himself through heroism as a special combat controller attached to a navy sea, air and land s.e.a.l. team conducting operations in takur ghar, afghanistan, in 2002. the team's helicopter was ambushed, calling a teammate to ...

Air force undersecretary matthew donovan, air force vice chief of staff, stephen wilson, and chief master sergeant of the air force, kathleen wright. i also want to thank va secretary robert wilke for joining us, and you are doing a great job. the vets are very happy. hearing a lot of great reports. thank you very much. along with senators john boseman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy, pat toomey, and representative matt gates and john larson. thank you all for being here very much. thank you all very much. appreciate it. we're gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a f...

Mountain. they wanted to get neil. they landed into a deep snow and heavy machine gunfire coming from three different directions. couldn't even see, so many bullets. over 10,000 feet, they fought the enemy at the highest altitude of any battle in the history of the american military. john chapman was the first to charge up the mountain toward the enemy. he killed two terrorists and cleared out the first bunker. john left the safety of the first bunker to fire a second enemy grenade at another bunker. as john fired on the second bunker, he was shot and fell to the ground and lost consciousness....

Snow-capped mountain boo the heart of a known enemy stronghold. without regard for his own safety, sergeant chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire of multiple directions. he fearlessly charged an enemy bunker, up a sleep incline and into hostile fire engaging the enemy. upon reaching the bunker, the sergeant assaulted and cleared the position killing all enemy occupants. with complete disregard for his own life, sergeant chapman deliberately moved from cover 12 meters from the enemy and exposed once again to attack a s...