Wounded Marine back in action

About a month ago, I had a post discussing a Marine working on an EOD assignment had been injured by an IED and, after he was patched up, he flipped off the insurgents who did it to him. Well, he's back in action. GySgt Michael Burghardt actually became rather famous for the photo taken by the Omaha World-Herald photographer that was inserted into the Nebraska Army National Guard 167th Cavalry 1st Squadron, which was guarding the Marine EOD unit. After the picture was distributed, GySgt Burghardt received over 100 emails and the picture became featured on several soldiers' and Marines' computer screensavers.

Three impressive things about this whole situation: GySgt Burghardt survived an explosion from an IED he was trying to disarm (so he was VERY close to it) and returned to duty in less than a month, he became famous from his photograph, and the World-Herald took the famous photograph!

The article was written by C. David Kotok, World-Herald Staff Writer, in the sunrise edition of the Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday, October 19, 2005