A Paratrooper died after saving a little Iraqi girls life:

A 25-year-old paratrooper severely injured when ordnance being returned to U.S. troops by a young Iraqi girl exploded, died Thursday.

Sgt. Troy Jenkins of Twentynine Palms, Calif., who was married and the father of two preschoolers, was credited with pushing other soldiers out of the way of the April 19 blast in Baghdad and with shielding the Iraqi girl.

"My boss says they will be putting him in for the Soldier's Medal, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart," said Master Sgt. Kelly Tyler, a Fort Campbell, Ky., spokeswoman. Sgt. Jenkins was based there as a member of the Army's 101st Airborne Division.

Sgt. Jenkins lost a leg and two fingers in the explosion, and his second leg was later amputated because shrapnel wounds were causing gangrene.

He shielded the girl from a grenade to save her life at the risk of his own. A true hero.