The Medal of Honor recipient who got shot two times while protecting fellow soldiers during a mission died at the age of 41.
Ronald Shurer II, a former Army Staff Sgt., reportedly died on Thursday, three years after he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
The war hero’s passing was confirmed by his wife, Miranda Shurer, who called her husband “an amazing man” and “an amazing soldier.”
Previously, in 2018, Mr. Shurer received the Medal of Honor, the United States’ highest-ranking military award, in a formal ceremony attended by hundreds of people.
Speaking of her deceased husband, Miranda said: “The same characteristics that made him a great teammate in Special Forces also made him a great husband and a great father and a great friend. He was very loved.”
Following the former soldier’s hospitalization, the man had become active on social media where he regularly shared updates about his health.
In his last post shared just one day before he died, Shurer shared a photo of himself connected to oxygen supply while lying on his hospital bed at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
“Very upset to write this … been unconscious for a week,” the former soldier wrote.
“They are going to try and take it out in a couple hours, they can’t tell me if it will work.”
Shurer was awarded the Medal of Honor years after rescuing his comrades from enemy forces in Afghanistan and catching two bullets in the process.
“When he showed up, nearly everybody was wounded. We were under direct fire,” Capt. Kyle Walton explained in an interview with Stars and Stripes back in 2018.
“We were pinned down with nearly nowhere to go except down that 100-foot cliff.”
While treating the wounded, Shurer was hit twice. Despite his injuries, he made his way through the barrage and up a nearby hill where he treated four more soldiers.
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