Minot Army veteran receives Medal of honor for Afghan fight

— 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: By Amer Taleb, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, The Jamestown Sun