John of Argghhh!!! has “A good war story.” An incredible story, well worth following the links and reading the whole thing.

Telegraph | News | ‘I can see no end to the killing zone, and for the first time I feel real fear’

Pte Johnson Beharry VC is the first person since 1965 to be awarded Britain’s highest award for gallantry while still alive. A 27-year-old native of Grenada, who came to Britain in 1999 and joined the British Army in 2001, he was a member of the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment when he was posted to Iraq in April 2004. He was awarded the VC on March 18, 2005. This is his story, taken from his soon to be published book, ‘Barefoot Soldier’.