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This Concurrent Resolution recommends that Sergeant Rafael Peralta be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration for valor. The resolution highlights Sergeant Peralta's heroic actions in November 2004 during the intense combat in Fallujah, Iraq, where he sacrificed his life by smothering a grenade with his body to save his fellow Marines. Despite multiple eyewitness accounts confirming this act of bravery, and the fact that the standard for awarding the Medal of Honor requires only two such accounts, his nomination was initially downgraded and later denied, even after new evidence was presented. The resolution asserts that Sergeant Peralta's actions align with the spirit of the Medal of Honor and urges that the eyewitness testimonies be the primary factor in his posthumous award, recognizing his dedication and sacrifice as an immigrant who proudly served the United States.