Iraq has heroes, so where are their medals?

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NORWALK, Ohio - Thirty-two-year-old Todd Corbin is an Ohio deputy sheriff, a corporal in the Marine reserves and, on a May day in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, a hero.

"It was like hell opened up — fires burning," Corbin says.

A suicide bomber, an IED, mortars, machine guns — four Marines killed right away. Corbin, a truck driver, ran to his wounded platoon sergeant.

" throw him over my shoulder and I run him back to the vehicle," Corbin recalls.

Mike Taibbi: "Are you taking fire the whole time?"

Corbin: "Yes, sir."

Taibbi: "And returning fire?"

Corbin: "Yes, sir."

At least five more times, Corbin crossed the field of fire to retrieve wounded mates, and got all of them to safety. But the details of Corbin's exploits haven't traveled much beyond his home town, the reach of his local newspaper and the military insiders who have known about the story since it happened.

Former Marine Joseph Kinney told a Congressional committee it's shameful the "war on terror" has seen so few awards for valor, including only two posthumous Medals of Honor, when Vietnam produced 245 and World War II produced 464..."

How in the hell would this administration of draft dodgers and chicken hawks even begin to know the meaning of the word "valor"?

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