[antimedia] antimedia: Read this incredible story....

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Read this incredible story....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1179369167.shtml


   ....of [1]bravery under fire. Cpl. Mark Camp, though wounded and badly
   burned, went back into a burning vehicle with ammunition cooking off
   all around him to save a buddy. Only when he could no longer save his
   friend did he call for help.

     Then he heard yelling from inside the vehicle. It was Pfc.
     Christopher Dixon, 18, of Obetz, a member of Camp's fire team. Camp
     knew his voice. He crawled back into the vehicle to save him.
     "He was my friend," Camp said.
     Camp banged his leg, felt pain and noticed for the first time that
     he had taken shrapnel in his right thigh. He kept going. The heat
     was cooking off ammunition all around him. Bullets flew. He tried
     to keep low.
     He grabbed Dixon with his burned hands, but he was weak. He kept
     telling Dixon that he was going to have to help him.
     Then there was another explosion. Camp fell back out of the
     vehicle, on fire again. Once more, he put himself out. Dixon was
     still inside.
     "I got back up. I crawled back in the trac," he said.
     Now, Dixon wasn't moving, and he wasn't talking. Camp tried to grip
     his pack, his helmet, anything, but by then the skin was melting
     from his hands. The heat inside the vehicle grew. Ammunition fired
     off everywhere.
     "I'm screaming for someone to help me," he said. "I'm screaming for
     someone with fresh hands."
     Finally, some Marines pulled Camp away and Dixon free, too. The
     second explosion had killed Dixon.

   Camp, I'm sure, thinks there was nothing all that special about what
   he did. That anyone would have done what he did.
   Heroes always think that way.

References

   1. http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2006/08/20/20060820-A1-03.html