Rocket Man

An amazing and moving story

Spc. Channing Moss should be dead by all accounts. And those who saved his life did so knowing they might have died with him.
March 16, 2006. Southeastern Afghanistan. A fierce ambush and bloody firefight. It was over in a flash and Moss was left on the verge of death.
He was impaled through the abdomen with a rocket-propelled grenade, and an aluminum rod with one tail fin protruded from the left side of his torso.
His fellow soldiers worried: Could he blow up and take them with him? For all anyone knew, the answer was yes.
Still, over the course of the next couple of hours, his buddies, a helicopter crew and a medical team would risk their own lives to save his.

Thanks to Ace for finding this.

2 Responses to “Rocket Man”

1. The_Real_JeffS says:

   November 14, 2007 at 6:17 pm

   An amazing story. Thanks for the link, Bing.

2. tree hugging sister says:

   November 15, 2007 at 6:18 pm

   Man, oh MAN!