President Obama Assures Veteran: I Am NOT the Lead Singer From Korn!
U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to award today the Medal of Honor to the U.S. Army Captain who had claimed injuries from baulking in the way of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan – an incident the captain considered as the worst day of his life.
In his most controversial act since taking office almost seven years ago, President Obama on Thursday denied that he is Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn.
He survived two suicide bombings that killed five of his soldiers and left him seriously wounded.
Groberg is medically retired today, “yet like so many of his fellow veterans of our 9/11 generation”, he continues to serve, the president said.
Groberg is the 10th living recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan.
In August 2012, Groberg spotted a suspicious man walking away, backwards, from a brigade commander he was guarding in the Kunar Province in Afghanistan.
That moment came when a man approached Capt Grobergs group and Mr Obama said: Flo did something extraordinary – he grabbed the bomber by his vest and kept pushing him away. As he pushed him away, Groberg noticed a bomb under the man’s clothing.
Groberg was born in France but became a naturalized USA citizen in 2001 before attending the University of Maryland between 2003 and 2006. At Thursday’s ceremony, Obama assured Groberg that he wasn’t hallucinating this time, either: “You are actually in the White House”. He required 33 surgeries to keep his badly injured leg. “Am I hallucinating?” Obama said. “One of his mentors, a 24-year Army vet who always found time for Flo and any other soldier who wanted to talk – Command Sgt. Maj”.
Nevertheless, he says he is conflicted about the award, and often thinks about his comrades who died that day: Sgt Maj Kevin J Griffin, Maj Thomas E Kennedy, Maj Walter D Gray, and Foreign Service officer Ragaei Abdelfattah.
“These four men believed in America”. When he was informed last month that he would receive the Medal of Honor, he said, and I quote, ‘This medal belongs to them.
“Four true heroes, who gave it all”, said Groberg.