I wasn't that good, but every kid's got that dream." "I thought I was going to be a major league baseball star.
"I went to college to play baseball," he told us. Long before Captain Chontosh put on a marine uniform, he had dreams of wearing a different uniform entirely. "He's always been fearless," said his mother. His mother, Robin Chontosh, says she sensed her son's courage early on. Six feet tall and two hundred pounds, with chiseled facial features, the Rochester, New York, native is no stranger to peril. Chontosh, thirty-one, served as leader of his Combined Anti-Armor Team platoon (CAAT) for Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, First Marine Division, First Marine Expeditionary Force. That was certainly the case March 25, 2003, when then-Lieutenant Brian R. But above all, they would learn that in war, just as in life, sometimes the only way through danger is to "push forward." They would find themselves closer to death than at any other time in their lives, forcing them to puttheir fate into each others' hands. They would be outnumbered almost thirty to one. Like the swipe of a match across the strike plate, the marine captain's words ignited actions that would forever change the lives of five men. "Push forward!" Captain Brian Chontosh yelled.
It took us two hundred years to get it halfway right. All the challenges and everything-they're not going to be perfect in a day. We're watching what America looked like right from the get-go that we weren't around to see over two hundred years ago. Marine Sergeant Robert Kerman SILVER STAR Marine Corporal Armand McCormick SILVER STAR
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