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Valor Friday
It’s not often I get to highlight the bravery of our Coasties. Eggs forwarded the tip of the story of William “Billy” Flores. Flores was from Benbrook, Texas. He left high school early to enlist in the Coast Guard (with the permission of his parents) when he was just 17. Only a year out of […]
Demond Wilson passes
Demond Wilson (born Grady Demond Wilson), 79, passed due to complications from cancer. The specific cancer was not disclosed. Where do you know him from? He was the son, Lamont, on the Redd Foxx television show “Sanford and Son.” Prior to this, Redd Foxx was considered a “blue” comedian, one who cursed and got off-color […]
Valor Friday
Harold “Hal” Fritz of Wisconsin was a 25-year old Army armor officer when he earned the Medal of Honor for actions in Vietnam in 1969. He was days away from finishing his tour when he refused to stop leading his men. Not in the face of overwhelming enemy odds, not after he was seriously wounded, […]
Valor Friday
Military.com this week will be doing most of the heavy lifting for Valor Friday. They did a write up on Edwin Ramsey and his platoon of cav troopers from the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts). On 16 January 1942, after more than a month of fighting against a relentless force of Imperial Japanese, then Lieutenant […]
A New Name You Should know
Well, I got sandbagged twice while waiting for the wife to get home from church. I like to think I am fairly savvy on Holocaust stuff, and I despise Fakebook, yet I read a post there that made me go “whoa” and start looking to see if there was any historical truth – and there […]
Valor Friday
Regular readers of this column will no doubt have noticed that I prefer to put considerable effort into my subjects. When time doesn’t permit that (I got a quartet of young kids with active schedules), you’ll also have noticed that I phone it in. I either point y’all to another article or just do a […]
We almost lost the Unknown Soldier?
Gonna give a hat-tip to Jeff LPH for this one. Certainly a bit of history they don’t teach very much, if at all. We decided to select an Unknown Soldier to represent the many unidentified war dead from WWI. There were certainly many available – by 1921, there were still 1,237 unidentified. The English had […]
Valor Friday
Jeff LPH sent an article to me about Lloyd Burke. I’ll post that below, but I did very briefly talk about Colonel Burke before. During my series on the “Most Decorated” men for the various wars and branches, he came up by my count as the most decorated Army officer of the Korean War. Starting […]
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