Real Soldiers
Brian Crotts; Marine saving the world
3E9 and Leonard send us a link to the story of former Marine Brian Crotts who was driving around Cleveland County, North Carolina with his wife when he saw a burning home. he stopped to see if he could help. He ended up rushing into the burning house and carrying J.B. Newton and his wife, […]
Sgt Tom Block; Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps
CNN’s Freedom Project starts their four-part “Heroes at Home: America’s Injured War Veterans” with the first in the series in which they look at wounded veterans who train with Human Exploitation Rescue Operation (HERO) Child-Rescue Corps to track down missing and exploited children in cooperation with law enforcement. This video focuses on former sergeant Tom […]
A Life Well Lived
A veteran of World War II died a week ago. It’s likely you’ve never heard of him. Yet his story is worth telling, in brief form. So I’ll tell it. His name was Miguel Encinias. He was from the “other” Las Vegas, the one east of the Rio Grande – Las Vegas, New Mexico. (smile) […]
Specialist Oscar Bonilla saving the world
One of our ninjas sent us a story about Specialist Oscar Bonilla, of the 1st Calvary Division at Fort Hood, Texas. He was driving home at night when he saw another stop his truck on an overpass bridge near Fort Hood. Bonilla thought the soldier was acting strangely, so he stopped and engaged the soldier […]
Soldier killed in Afghanistan
We mentioned the other day that a Special Forces soldier was killed in Marjah, Afghanistan. The Department of Defense has identified him as Staff Sergeant Matthew Q. McClintock assigned to the1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Buckley, Washington. He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Kyle Carpenter charged in hit-and-run
Medal of Honor recipient retired Marine Corporal Kyle Carpenter, was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident when he struck a pedestrian in a crosswalk in Columbia, South Carolina earlier last month, according to Fox News; Authorities said Carpenter, 26, pulled over and turned on his hazard lights, but never got out of his […]
Daniel Chang saving the world
On of our ninjas sends us a story from Florida about Daniel Chang who saw a man punching and strangling a woman who was holding a child. Chang a Fort Leonard Wood soldier home on leave tried to convince the man to stop, but he wouldn’t, so Chang body slammed him and held him for […]
Tibor Ruben passes
The sad news that Tibor Ruben has passed comes from Stars & Stripes. A Jew in Hungary, he survived the Holocaust while imprisoned at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria for two years. Two of his sisters perished during their imprisonment. Out of gratitude to the US forces that liberated him, Ruben joined the Army […]
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