By Gabe Bullard/KPR
Louisville, KY – President Barack Obama will award the nation's highest military honor to a Kentucky native this week. Former Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer is the third living recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. Two years ago, he ran into enemy fire to find four of his fellow troops in Afghanistan. He then helped retrieve their bodies. Meyer is now back in Kentucky, where he says he mostly keeps to himself. He says he doesn't feel the medal gives him any new responsibilities, but it does give him an opportunity. Meyer says,
"I have a platform to where I can go out and let Americans know what guys like me are doing. I think the problem in the military is the infantry guys and all the guys out there doing the fighting never get recognition."
Meyer will receive the medal in a ceremony Thursday.