We can watch the last six seconds of their young lives. Putting ourselves in their heads, it took about a second for the two Marines to separately come to the same conclusion about what was going to happen once the truck came into their view at the far end of the passageway. They had no time to talk it over, no time to call the sergeant to ask what they should do. They only enough time to take half a second to remember their duty and to think about what the sergeant told them to do only a few minutes before: “let no unauthorized personnel, or vehicles, pass.”

It took perhaps another two seconds for them to present their weapons, take aim, and open fire. By this time the truck was halfway through the barriers and gaining speed as it hurtled toward the final two-man barrier. The recording also shows many Iraqi police, some of whom had fired their AKs, now scattering like the normal and rational men they were. They ran right past the Marines. Now, Yale and Haerter were face to face with death.

For about two seconds more, the recording shows the Marines’ firing their weapons nonstop. The suicide truck’s windshield explodes into shards of glass as non-stop rounds take it apart and tear into the body of the terrorist son-of-a-bitch who is trying to drive this lethal bomb, disguised as a truck, past them to kill their brother Marines and Iraqi soldiers bedded down in their barracks for the night. Asleep and totally unaware of the fact that their lives at that moment depended entirely on two Marines standing their ground.

If these men had been aware, they would have known they were safe, because two Marines stood between them and a crazed suicide bomber. That’s what heroes do. Stand their ground. Defend their brothers. Watch their six. The truck careens to a stop immediately in front of these two brave Marines. Yale and Haerter never hesitated in the face of this instantaneous violence.

By all reports, and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never started to step aside. They never shifted their weight. Their spread feet stood shoulder width apart. They leaned into the danger, firing as rapidly as they could work their weapons. They had one second left to live.

Much of this article was taken from a report posted on October 26, 2017 by Scott Johnson in Armed Forces.

Compare these two Marines to the ignorant cowards that will not honor our flag, anthem and country. While the subversive leftists glorify these sad weaklings, I’m asking why Yale and Haerter have not been awarded the Medal of Honor.

God Bless us all and God Save our Corps. Our Marines, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our American Flag, our culture, our country, our civilization, our currency, our children, our liberty, our safety and our future need you now more than ever.