U.S. Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter looked at his exhibit at the Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center on Monday, but he doesn’t have the same sense of awe others do.
A real-life hero – and the youngest living Medal of Honor recipient – Carpenter said he doesn’t feel “any different” when asked whether he felt like a hero, even though his act of bravery and sacrifice in November 2010 in Afghanistan clearly put him in a different class.
Carpenter will be the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s fifth annual Celebration of Valor luncheon at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
It will be the first such luncheon without Charles Coolidge, who was awarded the Medal of Honor, our country’s highest personal military honor for valor, for action in World War II and for whom the Heritage Center is named.
Luncheon guests will be treated to a video tribute to Coolidge, who died in April at age 99.