[HTML1] CBS’ “60 Minutes” offered an uplifting portrait last night of families sacrificing together. Five sets of brothers were members of 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines, out of Houston, Texas, during the unit’s deployment to Afghanistan last year. The decision wasn’t reached lightly: Battalion commander Lt. Col. Todd Zink had to be convinced it was a good idea, he told CBS’s Lara Logan. The quick comparison made, of course, is to the Sullivan brothers of World War II. Five Sullivan brothers famously served together on the cruiser Juneau, dying together after the Japanese torpedoed their ship. This story had a much…
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Last night, the messy background behind Sgt. Dakota Meyer’s Medal of Honor was reintroduced to the nation. In a 15-minute piece on “60 Minutes,” CBS reporter David Martin outlined what went wrong in the six-hour battle in Ganjgal, Afghanistan, that led to Meyer taking his life in his hands on Sept. 8, 2009, in an attempt to save as many Afghan and American forces as he could from the teeth of a well planned ambush. The clip is up here: [HTML1] Some of the details reported last night will be common knowledge to those who have tracked Ganjgal, but there…
