A Medal of Honor Role Model

Peter C. Lemon

Rank and Organization: Sgt. , U.S Army, Company E, 2d Batallion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Div Place and date: Tay Ninh province, Republic of Vietnam, 1 April 1970 Entered Service at : Tawas City, Mich. DOB: 5 June 1950, Toronto, Canada

Citation: Mr. Lemon is one of our most young living recipients that receive a Medal of Honor. When he was 19 years-old he was fighting against his enemies at a provinve in Vietnam. The battle lasted for about three hours. Lemon and his 18-men platoon thought they would get a goodnite sleep but they were wrong. That night about 400 enemy soldiers were in their territory and Lemon and his men fought with them. He was severly injured but he kept going and defend himself from that attack. He would fight with all of his fury and kept winning each group of enemies. By the third time trying to overthrow a group of enemies he was exasted but didn't give up. Wiht the energy he had left from fighting he found a working machine gun and got in it. He attacked them and kept going. Sgt. Lemon was very optimistic by going on with the battle even though he saw three of his friends die and helping a wounded slodier get help. Once he was getting help he never stopped thinking about his peers and ordered to get them to a hospital first instead of him. If this wish wasn't done Lemon woudln't let himself be evacuated either. When his war was over he returned to his homwtown in Michigan. He would live a better life and try to forget the bad moments he went through. When he was awarded the Medal of Honor, he felt like he didn't deserve it. He said that all the 18 soldiers that died in that war should have won that medal instead of him. But Lemon accepted the medal and hwe was actually the first Canadian man to get the Medal of Honor. He was with the same thought throughout the years. He said he didn't wear the medal because only three soldiers really deserved the medal which were his closest friends that died in the war.

I want to thank you Sgt. Lemon because there's only a few soldier men like you that think of other people first instead of themselves. If it weren't for your help the rest of the wounded soldiers would have probably died instanly or not gotten help at all.

SCRATCH OFF # 10 & 12

It seems impossible to be able to complete 15 goals doesn’t it? Luckily time passes by without even noticing it. October just finished and I have now completed two more goals!

GETTING TO CLASSES ON TIME

I was confused at the beginning of the year just like everyone else and couldn’t find my classes or walked in circles and at the end the class was around the corner. Now that I’m a sophomore I have classes on “the other side” too. Going from class to class wasn’t easy for me since I had to come from far away and sometimes all the way from the forth floor! Teachers always complain that “That’s not a good excuse miss” but it was hard at the beginning but then I found shortcuts. :)

PASS A GEOMETRY TEST

Ever since I could remember Math is one subject that I’ve always passed and seems easy for me. I guess is just the fact that I like working with numbers and similar problems like that. But passing this geometry test was kind of hard since I had to memorize some formulas of shapes but I did pass the test. Now I just hope not to fall behind.