To: Perdogg
I salute him for his military service. May his family be comforted.
2 posted on
12/17/2012 3:08:26 PM PST by
clintonh8r
(Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
To: clintonh8r
I salute him and his congressional Medal of Honor . Despite political differences he was a great servant to his country.
To: clintonh8r
He was a true hero. When he had his arm blown off, he was in the process of throwing a grenade; despite the horrific injury, he picked up the grenade with his left hand and proceeded to throw it and destroyed a German bunker. This was after he was shot in the stomach.
16 posted on
12/17/2012 3:21:01 PM PST by
drew
To: clintonh8r
I salute him for his military service. May his family be comforted.
Megs-Dittoes! The downside, "Leaky Leahy" from Vermont is third in line to the POTUS.
18 posted on
12/17/2012 3:21:26 PM PST by
Nowhere Man
(I miss you Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012). Take care, pretty girl!)
To: clintonh8r
Prayers. God Bless his family.
82 posted on
12/17/2012 5:41:46 PM PST by
napscoordinator
(GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
To: clintonh8r; All
This is how Senator Daniel Inouye won the Medal of Honor: On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy called Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint along the strip of German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, which represented the last and most dogged line of German defensive works in Italy. As he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions just 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach; ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and fire from his Thompson submachine gun. After being informed of the severity of his wound by his platoon sergeant, he refused treatment and rallied his men for an attack on the second machine gun position, which he also successfully destroyed before collapsing from blood loss. As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore". Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye tossed the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them to return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, "nobody called off the war!" The remainder of Inouye's mutilated right arm was later amputated at a field hospital without proper anesthesia, as he had been given too much morphine at an aid station and it was feared any more would lower his blood pressure enough to kill him.
88 posted on
12/17/2012 6:10:45 PM PST by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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