As Mr. Oresko would recall it: “I looked up to heaven and I said: ‘Lord, I know I am going to die. Make it fast, please.’ ” He ordered his platoon to move forward. No one did. He repeated the order. Still, no one responded. “I said to myself, ‘Well, someone has to go,’ ” he remembered. “So I decided to go myself.” He had gone 30 feet up that hill when his men began moving out behind him, but the closest were still 50 feet away. In the chaos that followed, Sergeant Oresko was hit by German fire. But he single-handedly wiped out two machine-gun positions, killing 12 enemy soldiers. His lone assault enabled his unit to take the hill with minimum casualties. Sergeant Oresko, only 5-feet-4 and about 150 pounds, received the Medal of Honor, its citation hailing his “quick thinking, indomitable courage and unswerving devotion to the attack.” nytimes/2013/10/06/us/nicholas-oresko-medal-of-honor-recipient-dies-at-96.html?_r=0
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