As four comrades-in-arms who owe their lives to Spc. Ross A. McGinnis looked on, President Bush presented to his parents the Medal of Honor in a June 2 ceremony in the White House East Room. McGinnis, of Knox, Pa., earned the honor when he jumped on a grenade an insurgent cast into a Humvee he was riding in with Sgt. 1st Class Cedric Thomas, Staff Sgt. Ian Newland, Sgt. Lyle Buehler, and Spc. Sean Lawson, in Baghdad on Dec. 4, 2006. He died absorbing the brunt of the blast. "He did far more than his duty," Bush said in remarks during the ceremony, shortly before giving their son’s medal to Tom and Romayne McGinnis. "The day will come when the mission he serves will have been completed, the fighting is over, and freedom and security prevail."