Vietnam
Valor Friday
I’m still short on time this week, so Warrant Officer Class II Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley of the Royal Australian Regiment won’t be getting my in-depth exploration as normal. I would like to highlight the man nonetheless as you’ve likely never heard of him. He earned his nickname Dasher when he was a champion rugby player. […]
Valor Friday
This week’s article comes by request. I’d previously touched on the heroics of Joe Ronnie Hooper in my “Most Decorated” series. While Major General Patrick Brady got the tip as the most decorated man of the Vietnam War (and by extension the most decorated officer and Army soldier), Hooper can lay claim to being the […]
Thomas Wayne Hudson – Even After Death, The Hits Just Keep on Comin’
You may recall Thomas Wayne Hudson – aka “The Walking Veteran” – the man that ‘walked’ across the United States *cough* pulling that silly little wagon accosting a cause for veterans. Strong rumor has it that he got several rides along his trip, so some doubt was cast upon his credibility for claiming it was […]
Rittenhouse Secures Sandmann’s Lawyer, Moves Forward with Defamation Lawsuit
Kyle Rittenhouse, the man acquitted in the shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, announced on that he was working with Todd McMurtry, the lawyer who represented Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann in his defamation case against CNN, the Washington Post, and others after a video went viral involving Sandmann and a Native American activist. Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer […]
Marty Saffel – POW-MIA Vietnam Veteran… Not So Fast
CBS14 / FOX44 Siouxland News published a video and story about a Vietnam Veteran who says he was a POW-MIA. Someone who is an esteemed member of the VG/TAH community sensed that something was amiss. They wrote to the news station and the media outlet published an “update.” Veteran shares story of survival in Vietnam […]
Valor Friday
During the Cold War there were numerous tales of valor and bravery occurring in places the US officially wasn’t. Francis Gary Powers, a former Air Force captain, was a CIA pilot overflying Russia in a U-2 spy plane when he was shot down and created an international incident with the Soviet Union. After the USS […]
Valor Friday
This week’s article subject comes by way of a request from Ex-PH2. He’s a man worth remembering, that’s for sure. Dwight Johnson was born in Detroit in 1947. He never knew his father. His mother raised him and his younger brother in a housing project in the Motor City. Along the way he got the […]
Valor Friday
This week I’ve got another legend of the US Army Dustoff community. Patrick Henry Brady was born in 1936 in South Dakota and grew up in the Washington State area. Brady’s father, during World War II, had served with the famed Darby’s Rangers. During the war his parents became estranged though, and Brady was raised […]
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