Remarks by President Obama at Presentation of Medal of Honor to Sergeant Kyle J. White, U.S. Army

by Gary Kopycinski on May 13, 2014

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President Barack Obama awards former Army Sgt. Kyle J. White the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during a ceremony at the White House, May 13, 2014. White received the medal for courageous actions while serving as a platoon radio telephone operator during combat operations against an armed enemy in Afghanistan's Nuristan province, Nov. 9, 2007.

President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to former Army Sergeant Kyle J. White. Photo: Marv Lynchard, DOD

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 13, 2014 – 2:44 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Please, be seated. Welcome to the White House. It has been said that true courage is “a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to incur it.” For more than 12 years, with our nation at war, the men…