Thursday, March 29, 2012

‘Hero’ Rhode Island National Guardsman Gives Life to Save Afghan Girl

‘Hero’ U.S. Soldier Gives Life to Save Afghan Girl

By Luis Martinez
Mar 29, 2012


It is a compelling war-zone story of heroism of a U.S. soldier who gave his own life to save an Afghan girl from certain injury.

Sgt. Dennis Weichel, 29, died in Afghanistan last week as he lifted an Afghan girl who was in the path of a large military vehicle barreling down a road.

Weichel, a Rhode Island National Guardsman, was riding along in a convoy in Laghman Province in eastern Afghanistan when some children were spotted on the road ahead.
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