UK: Teenage hero gets bravery medal

[muriel_volestrangler]

A 19-year-old soldier has become one of the youngest servicemen to receive The George Cross.
Trooper Christopher Finney, who saved a comrade under so-called friendly fire in Iraq, said he was "overwhelmed" after being decorated by the Queen.
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The Queen said she was honoured to present me with the George Cross and that she hadn't presented one for a long time."
Trooper Finney is one of the youngest serviceman to receive the George Cross, which is the highest award for acts of conspicuous gallantry performed by men or women when not in the face of the enemy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/3518887.stm

Not big news; but the ironic thing is that he got the George Cross, rather than the better known Victoria Cross, because he wasn't under enemy fire, but from an American plane.