SERGEANT WHO SAVED AFGHAN BOYS LIFE LAID TO REST IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

A heroic Sergeant was laid to rest Monday after giving his life for a child.

After lifting a boy out of the way of an oncoming armored vehicle, Sgt. Dennis Weichel was struck by the truck and subsequently died from injuries he sustained, according to the Associated Press. The military originally reported that Weichel had saved an Afghan girl.

A funeral service was held for Weichel on Monday in Providence, R.I. where the flags were flown at half staff, WPRI reports. He will be buried at the State Veterans Cemetery at Exeter.
"I knew Weichel would do something like that because he definitely cares about people," Spec. Seth Chiaro told the news outlet.

Weichel was posthumously promoted to Sergeant and was awarded the bronze star and the NATO Service Medal Afghanistan Campaign Ribbon RI Star, the AP reports.

During the funeral service, according to WPRI, Maj. General Kevin McBride called Weichel's selfless act "a virtue we should all live by."

Read the full story here and watch slide show:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/sgt-dennis-weichel-funeral_n_1397906.html


Watch video tribute to Sgt. Weichel:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/remembering-an-american-hero-28791791.html;_ylt=AkGkOJtsxiL1efT4EAWR5SIBS5Z4#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fworld-15749633%252Fremembering-an-american-hero-28791791.html

"CURVEBALL"--IRAQI MAN WHO LIED TO BUSH AND CHENEY THAT LED TO IRAQ WAR WILL CONFESS ALL

The IRAQI man, who was known as "Curveball," will appear in a British television interview on Monday and he plans to confess that he misled BUSH and CHENEY about WMDs in Iraq and the result was the IRAQ war was launched that cost over 4,500 American lives and 100,000 Iraqi citizens.

Read more here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html