President Obama has called and apologized to the family of Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti

President Obama has called and apologized to the family of Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti. Obama claimed Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti was alive, but President Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously.This was a horrible gaffe by President Obama. He really needs his teleprompter. We should commend Obama for personally calling the family and apologizing. It was the right thing to do.

(ABC News) — President Obama today apologized to the family of a Medal of Honor recipient whom he erroneously said was still alive.

On Thursday at Fort Drum, the president told troops from the 10th Mountain Division that he previously “had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.”

Wrong. Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006. In September 2009, President Obama awarded him the Medal of Honor posthumously.

On his Facebook page this evening, Monti’s father, Paul, posted: “FYI — President Barack Obama telephoned me personally this afternoon to apologize for his error in his speech to the 10th mountain division re: Jared’s medal ceremony. Apology accepted.”

Learn more about American hero Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti.