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Reluctant KH military hero comes home for Christmas

Dec-29-2006 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

By: Arnie Harris, Bradford County Telegraph

While driving down S.R. 21 in Keystone, you may have noticed welcome home signs for Army Sergeant Christopher Glasgow at such locations as Mallard's, Johnny's Bar-B-Q, Ace Hardware, AMVETS and others.

A reluctant hero if there ever were one, Glasgow, who arrived home from Iraq on Christmas morning, had this as just another factor to add to his embarrassment over being made such a fuss over.

The fact is, however, that Glasgow, of the 172nd Stryker Brigade, brought home with him a Soldier's Medal for his actions on June 8 in Mosul, Iraq, when he and three other soldiers rescued 14 people from sure death when the building they were sleeping in rapidly turned into an inferno.

In the early morning hours of that day, Glasgow and his fellow soldiers were on duty at their base when they were informed that an adjacent building, housing a restaurant and its 14 Turkish employees, was on fire.

Seeing that they had no time to lose, and with propane tanks exploding and sending up 65-foot flames, the soldiers dashed into the blazing building, awakened the occupants and hustled them out of the building within four minutes, after which time they most certainly would have perished.

Glasgow adamantly objects to being called a hero.

"I don't think I did anything special that anyone else wouldn't have done," he said.
His attitude is that all soldiers serving their country should be considered as and treated like heroes.


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