Positivity: Injured war hero aims to inspire others with book
April 30, 2007
Sgt. Maj. Brad Kasal still thinks every day about death, sacrifice and honor in Iraq, even though he’s back in Iowa. The war hero has written a book in hopes of inspiring other Marines.
Kasal, 40, said he can’t forget what happened on Nov. 13, 2004, while he was engaged in urban combat against insurgents in Fallujah.
It was there that he earned a Navy Cross for leading a mission into an enemy-held house to rescue wounded Marines. He killed one insurgent in the house in a face-to-face encounter. Then he was shot seven times by an enemy fighter with an AK-47 assault rifle and absorbed the brunt of a grenade blast while shielding another badly injured Marine with his body.
“I have regrets about that day - that I lost a Marine and that 13 other good Marines were wounded,” Kasal said recently. “But I don’t have any regrets about going into that house. If I had it to do over again - even knowing what happened - I would do it all over again.”
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