Real Soldiers
Ia Drang Valley, 14-17 November 1965
A bit more than 30 miles southwest of Pleiku, in what was once the Republic of Vietnam – AKA South Vietnam – flows a river. It flows through the region of South Vietnam called the Central Highlands. The people living there were the Nguoi Thuong. They were not ethnically Vietnamese. Westerners termed them “Montagnards”. In […]
Brian Eckerman; Saving the world one person at a time
Andy sends us a link from Chicago about veteran Army Reservist Brian Eckerman who saw a woman on the tracks of a train and a train was due to arrive soon; Brian Eckerman jumped to action when a he saw a woman he thought had fallen on the train tracks. “I saw that she was […]
Richard Overton – our oldest veteran
ROS sends us a link to International Business Times which writes about Richard Overton, believed to be our oldest veteran; According to the Houston Chronicle, Overton, born on May 11, 1906, in Bastrop County, Texas, is a World War II Army veteran who fought in the South Pacific. After the war, he moved to Austin, […]
The final toast of the Doolittle Raiders
There were 80 and now there are four surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders who struck our first blow against the Japanese mainland four months after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. From the Associated Press; Three of the four surviving Raiders attended the toast Saturday at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. […]
8th of November
It was the 8th of November, 1965 when Specialist Lawrence Joel proved his mettle near Bien Hoa, conducting Operation Hump with his fellow paratroopers of the 1/503rd of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. From his citation for the Medal of Honor; For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call […]
NRA’s Life of Duty; Patriot Profiles; Dakota Myer
The folks at the NRA Life of Duty and Brownells send us their latest video, part one of a profile of Dakota Myer; Dakota Meyer is a country boy who grew up amongst the corn and tobacco fields in the rolling hills and lush farmland of Columbia, Kentucky. Awarded the Medal of Honor, our nation’s […]
ABC News interviews Juan Carlos Hernandez
ABC News sends us an interview they did with Juan Carlos Hernandez who was injured in Afghanistan while a member of an Army aircrew. While he was at Brooke Army Medical center, he got hook up with the folks at Ride 2 Recovery. You have to watch the interview video in order to get the […]
A Hero Recognized
In September 2012, over the Labor Day Weekend, a family went to the beach at Panama City Beach, Florida. The husband and his daughter decided to go swimming. That turned out to be a bad move. Beaches in that part of Florida are beautiful, and are world-renowned. And September is usually a very nice month. […]
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