Medal Of Honor Recipients Attend Louisville Convention

{Kentucky}...Kentucky Marine Dakota Meyer and Army Sgt. Leroy Petry of New Mexico, two of only three living recipients who have been awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in Iraq or Afghanistan, were in Louisville on Thursday to attend a convention honoring the recipients of the military's highest honor. Meyer, 23, was given the award for charging through heavy gunfire on five death-defying trips to rescue fellow soldiers and Marines ambushed by Taliban insurgents in Kunar Province in September 2009. The military says Meyer saved 36 lives - 13 Marines and Army soldiers along with 23 Afghan soldiers. Meyer personally killed at least eight insurgents despite being wounded himself. Petry received the honor for throwing back a live grenade that had been tossed at him and fellow soldiers in the Paktya province of Afghanistan in May 2008. The grenade detonated as he threw it, taking his right hand at the wrist and further injuring him with shrapnel. The Congressional Medal of Honor Society organized the Louisville convention which ends Saturday.