Saturday, November 6, 2021

Some great examples of who serve in our name...

They're your friends, your neighbors, your cousins. They're everyday people doing extraordinary things. 

Remembering that Veterans Day is next week.

This pilot found out that the OH58 Kiowa 
helicopter he’d been flying was the very 
same aircraft which made him want to become 
an army pilot in the first place.
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This is a British Army combat medic in Afghanistan. Her name is Bethany Gilford.
 There aren't enough beers in the world that I wouldn't buy for this woman. Thank God for people like her...
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Lewis Millett joined the Army in 1941 but got tired of waiting for the U.S. to invade someone, so he deserted to Canada and got himself deployed to London. When America entered the war, he jumped back under the Stars and Tripes and twice saved men in his unit from certain death before his desertion charges caught up with him.
He was convicted and then promoted to second lieutenant within weeks. When Korea rolled around, he was an infantry captain who received a Distinguished Service Cross for a bayonet charge he led on Feb. 4, 1951 and a Medal of Honor for another bayonet charge on Feb. 7. He later served in Vietnam and retired as a colonel.
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Tibor Rubin survived the Mauthausen, Austria concentration camp and joined the U.S. Army to how his appreciation for them liberating him. In Korea, he held a hilltop on his own for 24 hours while his unit retreated using the road he was guarding. When he was finally captured, he refused offers by the Chinese to send him to his native Hungary, instead staying as a prisoner and stealing food for others.
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