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Jonathan Davis got a notable mention during a Medal of Honor ceremony.

"I am not the lead singer from Korn," President Barack Obama said November 12 at a Medal of Honor ceremony.

He was honoring Florent Groberg, an army captain who tackled a suicide bomber in 2012 while serving in Afghanistan. Early on during Florent's three-year recovery, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis actually visited him in the hospital, though he was so dazed at the time that he thought he imagined it.

"Flo thought, 'What's going on? Am I hallucinating?'" the President says. "But he wasn't. It was all real. And so today, Flo, I want to assure you, you are not hallucinating. You are actually in the White House. The cameras are on. I am not the lead singer from Korn. We are here to award you our nation's highest military distinction."

Sure, the President's joke is funnier when taken out of context. But the story of Florent's recovery is proof that reality is often stranger than fiction. Watch the Medal of Honor speech, which begins with the Jonathan Davis story, below.

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