U.S. Marine Walks Away from Head Shot in Afghanistan

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God bless Lance Cpl. Andrew Koenig:

In one of those rare battlefield miracles, an insurgent sniper hit Lance Cpl. Koenig dead on in the front of his helmet, and he walked away from it with a smile on his face.

The young Marine had already survived two roadside bomb blasts in a 2008 tour of the country:

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