ND veteran receives Medal of Honor for Afghan fight

WASHINGTON — At the bottom of a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Army Staff Sgt. Clinton L. Romesha woke up Oct. 3, 2009, to explosions ricocheting throughout his compound. Racing out of bed to grab his machine gun, he and roughly 50 Americans were about to fight one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan war.

By: Amer Taleb, The Dickinson Press