Howard Banks, Iwo Jima vet attacked
According to KTVT, Howard Banks, a 92-year-old veteran who was blinded at the battle for Iwo Jima was assaulted when he tried to prevent criminals from defacing his flag at his home in Kaufman, Texas.
“I walked out, hanging onto the railing, and stepped down. That must’ve startled them,” Banks said.
Banks said the first time this happened, about a year ago, someone shredded his American flag and ripped his Marine flag. He was determined not to let that happen again.
“They could see me. I couldn’t see them. I turned and looked in the other direction, and about then – wham! One of them knocked me down,” Banks said.
Whoever did it took off. Neighbors rushed in to help Banks up. His knee was left a little twisted, he said, and he suffered bumps and bruises.
Some Marines at Honor Flight Austin heard about the incident and went to visit with him according to the Washington Times;
On Sunday, he was paid a visit by fellow Marine veterans from Honor Flight Austin, who offered him a free trip to Washington, D.C. to see the National World War II Memorial.
“You know, first, you start messing with the American flag, I get real hot under the collar. And then, when I found out that they yanked the Marine Corps flag down, that made my bottom spicy,” Michael Jernigan, a Marine corporal with the Blinded American Veterans Foundation, told Fox.
“This guy is living history. He’s a national treasure. People should be lined up on his porch to talk to him, not ripping his flags down,” added Honor Flight Austin Director Kory Ryan.
Category: We Remember
Find the people who did this and burn them alive.
+100
No. That’s a waste of good fuel.
Find them and put them on a chain gang, making little rocks out of big rocks, for about six months, with Strother Martin as the watchdog.
Didn’t Sam Cooke do a tune about that?
Something about men working all day wearing a frown?
Yeah, I thought so.
A group named Devo did something similar when they covered an old Lee Dorsey tune written by Allen Toussaint. A year and a day of that might make even a better chain gang punishment for a-holes like these two miscreants, come to think of it.
Not a waste of fuel, Ex. You just need some accelerant to get it going, then they become the fuel. Then break out the hot dogs and marshmallows.
first cut their balls off so they can’t breed!
“That made my bottom spicy.”
That cracks me up. He is a real character. It’s cotton-pickin’ shame he can’t see, but he mind is in great shape.
We should all live so long and be so ornery, right up to the end!
Fucking pussies.
I hope they catch the puke and send him to the big house with Tiny and the rest of them.
Way tough to beat up on a 91 year old blind man…
Fuckhead…
At first I said, “This happened in Texas?” and then I saw it was Austin.
This. Shocked face. Tall tree, punks, short rope, some assembly required.
The USMC should detach a platoon for a few “honor” patrols near his house.
That might fix the problem…..
That might help ’cause thugs gonna do what thugs gonna do.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/died-soldier-world-war-ii-vet-killed-beating-fend-attackers-cops-article-1.1438024
“It’s the summer and ain’t nothing to do here.”
Lots of people find themselves in that situation; however, that doesn’t drive them to go out rob somebody, or beat somebody to death. I’m pretty sure that their parents, or one of their relatives, had “projects” around the home that could’ve kept these thugs busy. Or, they could’ve taken up a constructive hobby. There are a lot of constructive and legal ways to “kill boredom”.
The above quote is nothing but an excuse, an attempt to shift blame.
Hang ’em… that will give them something to do for a few minutes.
Those hoodlums should have already pulled rope, but since that happened 4 years ago, they are likely back on the street if they were tried a juveniles.
Last I heard, they both got around 20 years in prison, but given time off for “good behavior”, you may well be right.
“It’s the summer and ain’t nothing to do here.”
Then get a friggin’ hobby, asshole! Read a book, watch TV, check out this cool new thing called the internet, toss a ball around, build an R/C car, draw pictures, build models, paint something, carve something, watch Internet porn, or go dig holes in the back yard. Or–God forbid–get a damn job! All of these things are more productive than assaulting old folks.
Demetrius and Kenan? Well, if only Obama had sons.
And Kenan’s uncle makes excuses, saying there’s nothing to do around there in summer, and that he fell in with the wrong crowd. Funny- both of those conditions have applied to my life at various points and I never murdered a senior citizen.
Your nephew is a vile piece of dog shit, who should be keelhauled until it proves fatal.
Where is a good ol fashioned American lynch mob when you need them???
Hang em all by their ankles from a tree, give Mr banks a big stick, and tell him he’s got a pinata! then when he gets tired, invite all the kids from the neighborhood to play pinata as well!
Those pissass punks need to be given a lesson on what pain really is, sounds like a batch of “Antifa” pissants!
Fucking pussy cowards. I bet they’re telling their buddies how tough they are, assaulting an old blind man. There’s a special place in Hell for scumbags like them.
Beating up a 92 year old blind guy? Veteran to boot?
Sometimes I wish the lash wasn’t considered cruel and unusual….listening to these fucksticks crying while they get whipped would make me very, very happy….short of that my knuckles crunching while I pound the shit out of them would make me smile a little at least.
Glad to see some good men are helping this man in good fashion.
Since we know how the “judicial system” would work if the two yutes were caught and tried, maybe it’s time to start administering some extra-judicial midnight justice.
Administer the Four Esses and make them……….disappear.
I would love to see these jackwads in a room with a few MARSOC (Raiders) and let Mr banks have a front row seat.
*That’s Mr. Banks. Excuse me guys this crap has me fired up so that I forgot to capitalize his last name …apologies.
Assholes + honey + fire ants = hilariously good times and cold beer. Bring these POS’s to my neck of Florida. My gators are looking a little thin.
Semper Fidelis Mr. Banks
My pleasure Sir
Fuckers. They should be found and hung up by their nut-hairs. Mutha-Fuckers. But true to form, the old badass Marine still went out there to confront those coward punks.
Maybe Mr. Banks should have a seeing-eye dog? A nice big dog that was originally trained by the Marines would work well, I think.
Seriously, what kind of filth does someone have to be to victimize any 92-year-old blind man? Disgusting.
Find these punk-ass little bastards and let me be on the jury.