Valor
Valor Friday
Samuel Perry (sometimes his middle name is listed as Powhatan) Carter is, in American history, the only man to have been commissioned in the armed forces as both a general officer and a flag officer (admiral). There have been others, who have served on active duty as a general officer in one of the branches […]
Valor Friday
Last week I talked about three men who went down fighting, and left a pile of enemy corpses surrounding their own bodies. Just a few months before their valiant last stand on Saipan in the Pacific Theater, another man did the exact same thing in the European Theater. Truman Olson was born in 1917 in […]
Valor Friday
Many of the stories I have the honor of writing about seem so absolutely incredible that they stretch the bonds of credulity. These are some of my favorites to research, because it’s amazing to me that these stories are true. Today’s subject is another of those incredible men whose tale would make the most spectacular […]
Valor Friday
Yesterday, 23 February was the 78th Anniversary of the historic flag raising on Mount Suribachi over Iwo Jima. Since I’ve been out with a bad case of food poisoning this week (as miserable as it is, it’s better than being on Iwo Jima), I didn’t have time to properly focus on a fresh article. Instead, […]
Valor Friday
With this week’s announcement that Colonel Paris Davis will receive America’s highest award, the Medal of Honor, for actions almost 60 years ago, I want to take a look at another overlooked man. The US isn’t the only country that denies proper recognition for acts of valor. Canadian veterans have for quite a while now […]
Valor Friday
Richmond Pearson Hobson Richmond Hobson was born in Alabama in 1870. He was the nephew and namesake of Congressman Richmond Pearson, nephew of North Carolina Governor Daniel Gould Fowle, and grandson of Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Richmond Mumford Pearson (his other namesake). Hobson attended the US Naval Academy. At Annapolis, he […]
Extra dose of valor for your Friday
I’ve previously talked about some recipients of the Dickin Medal, awarded by the British animal humane organization People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). It is the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, the United Kingdom’s (and Commonwealth’s) highest honor, awarded only for battlefield gallantry. A US Marine Corps dog is the latest recipient of the […]
Valor Friday
Part three on my exploration of Congressmen of valor. Thomas Wilson Bradley Thomas Bradley, an Englishman by birth, immigrated to the US when he was a small child. He came to the country with his mother Mary Wilson and the James Roberts family, just before his fifth birthday, aboard the ship Fidelia. Initially living in […]
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