Kentucky Marine To Receive Medal Of Honor

{Kentucky}...Corporal Dakota Meyer, a Kentucky Marine, is in Washington where he will visit with President Obama at the White House Thursday to receive the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award, for saving the lives of dozens of soldiers during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan. Meyer is the first living Marine to receive the award for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. Meyer made five trips into the September 8, 2009 ambush in the Ganjgal Province. Meyer, then 21, went into the kill zone on foot after helicopter pilots called on to respond said they could not help retrieve the four missing service members because the fighting on the ground was too fierce. Meyer found his buddies in a trench where pilots had spotted them. All four of the fallen soldiers were subsequently honored with Bronze Stars. Meyer says he's being recognized for the worst day of his life. His grandparents, Dwight and Jean Meyer, of Greensburg, Kentucky, plan to attend the ceremony.