Monday, June 27, 2016

'Just a soldier doing my job,' says hero who tackled suicide bomber in Afghanistan

Florent Groberg tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and lived to tell about it. The Army captain received the Medal of Honor for his brave action, but he says he's "absolutely not" a hero.
"The word belongs to the people that don't come home,” he says. “I'm just a soldier doing my job."

Still, his heroic act in 2012 has become the stuff of legend.

Groberg, 33, was born in France to an American father and French mother of Algerian descent. He came to the U.S. in 1994 at the age of 11, learned English while growing up in Maryland and became determined to join the military after the September 11 terror attacks.

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