"He displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity. While helping clear
enemy mines from a road, he stepped on a well-concealed S-type
antipersonnel mine. Hearing the characteristic noise indicating that the
mine had been activated and, if he stepped aside, would be thrown
upward to explode above ground and spray the area with fragments, surely
killing 2 comrades directly behind him and endangering other members of
his squad, he deliberately placed his other foot on the mine even
though his best chance for survival was to fall prone. Pvt. Wallace was
killed when the charge detonated, but his supreme heroism at the cost of
his life confined the blast to the ground and his own body and saved
his fellow soldiers from death or injury."
From PFC Wallace's Medal of Honor citation, awarded on October 25, 1945.
May you be at peace,
Brian & Melonie
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