Marine receiving Navy Cross for valor in combat

La Porte Marine receiving Navy Cross for valor in combat
Sunday, May 13, 2012

BAYTOWN, TX (KTRK) -- This week, a Marine from La Porte will receive an extraordinary decoration for valor in combat -- the Navy Cross.

This Mother's Day, his mom was getting ready for the big ceremony, wiping tears from her face as she talked about her hero.

"I'm proud of him," Penni Farias said of her son. "But God protected him."

She calls him Chris -- her 26-year-old son who still gets homesick. But most of the world knows him as Sgt. Christopher Farias, a decorated U.S. Marine who nearly died while serving in Afghanistan.

"I had to keep my promise, which was to bring my guys home," Sgt. Farias told us. "I promised my best friend's wife that I would get him home. I could hear him screaming and I knew I had to do something."
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