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Corporal Jason Lee Dunham was born in Scio, New York, on November 10, 1981. He was a basketball player who graduated from Scio High School in 2000 and enlisted in the US Marine Corps shortly after.
He was first sent to Kings Bay, Georgia, before deploying to Iraq with the 7th Marine Regiment in 2004.
Corporal Jason Lee Dunham earned a Congressional Medal of Honor on April 14, 2004. While supporting another Marine Corps convoy under attack. While bringing the enemy combatants under control, one of the attackers dropped an armed grenade. Corporal Dunham attempted to use his helmet to shield himself and his unit from the shrapnel. He was severely injured by the explosion and evacuated. Corporal Jason Lee Dunham succumbed to his injuries on April 22, 2004, at the National Naval Medical Center.
He rests at Fairlawn Cemetery in Scio, New York.
The USS Jason Dunham, the DDG 109 destroyer, is named in his honor.
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