@parkwayofficial@rockfestwi@Thirdeyevisual1 You guys sounded fucking amazing! Thanks for making the trip to Wisconsin to put on a great show! Hope you guys can come back again🤘
After climbing the seawall and exposing himself to enemy fire, the 25-year-old Lopez pulled the pin from a hand grenade, intending to throw it into an enemy pillbox. But as he lifted his arm to throw, enemy fire blasted into his right shoulder and chest, forcing him to fall backward and drop the live grenade. Instead of letting it roll away, the critically wounded lieutenant dragged himself forward to the grenade. Unable to grasp it firmly enough to hurl it towards the enemy, he swept the grenade beneath him and absorbed the full impact of its explosion.
Lopez's actions are credited with saving at least 30 men, and thus, the citation outside of his old room at the academy is for the Medal of Honor awarded to him posthumously by President Harry S. Truman.