Navy veteran, 100, cheered for standing up to protesters at medal ceremony

Navy veteran, 100, cheered for standing up to protesters at medal ceremony Published January 05, 2015 FoxNews.com

A 100-year-old U.S. Navy veteran drew cheers from a crowd in Oregon Saturday after telling protesters shouting "hands-up, don't shoot!" to stop interrupting his medal ceremony and to “show a little respect.”

Dario Raschio was at Portland Community College's Southeast Campus to be honored by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, at a public town hall meeting. But shortly after Wyden began speaking, more than 100 demonstrators in the back of the room started shouting, The Oregonian reports.

After 15 minutes of chanting against the deaths of unarmed black men by white police officers, Wyden was able to talk the group into quieting down so he could continue with the medal ceremony.

Raschio joined the Navy at the age of 27 and participated in five campaigns in the Pacific theater, flying observational planes based off the USS Chester. He was awarded a frame filled with medals, including the U.S. Naval Aviator Badge, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory medal, the American Defense Service Medal, the "Ruptured Duck" award and the U.S. Navy Honorable discharge pin.

Today #BlackLivesMatter Imploded

In the beginning of Occupy, there were some normal, non-radical folk that came out to the protests. People were upset about bailouts and thought that this was what the protest was about. But there was a point at about two months in, where the normal people figured out what Occupy was all about, and the normal people left. What was left was the organizing radicals who were not there because of bailouts but were there for revolution, for anti-U.S., anti-capitalism.

We’re at that point today with #BlackLives Matter. It has never been about #BlackLivesMatter, anymore than Occupy was about bailouts. It is about the same thing Occupy was about – revolution and anarcho-communism. Small wonder, as the same people are behind it.

1. Last night, they raided a town hall in Portland, hijacking a medal ceremony for a 100 year old veteran of WWII. Portland is quite liberal and yet this group managed to alienate the audience of people that would normally be receptive to them. They not only disrupted the ceremony, they also attacked a man who tried to call for order so everyone’s concerns at the meeting could be heard. They shouted that he was a “token”. Ron Wyden, the Senator who was running the town hall, said he would meet with them and give them time to raise questions in the course of the meeting. That was not enough for them, they shouted him down and the meeting had to be cancelled because of the disruption. They later claimed they conducted their own ‘town hall’, as they talked to themselves. They clearly didn’t hear or care what anyone else is saying at the town hall.

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He’s an usher with tales of the town, and beyond
Ed Langlois

Dario Raschio, 91, winces as he fingers the scars of his leap.

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One day at the post office, he saw a flyer promising a bonus for joining the Navy. He signed up in September 1941.

After Pearl Harbor, his training was expedited. In a letter to Portland from a Florida base, he proposed to Maria, telling her he would buy her ‘the most expensive ring Woolworth’s has.’ The wedding took place at St. Michael’s in 1942 before he went overseas.

As a Navy pilot, he flew observation floatplanes that were catapulted off heavy cruisers. They flew ‘low and slow’ and were a favorite target of Japanese gunners, he says.

On a blustery Easter Sunday 1944, he was to carry a photographer to survey Japanese runways on a South Pacific island. While aloft, the plane began taking heavy fire. He steered back toward the ship, but not before scouting out the Japanese narrow gauge tracks that he believed led to an ammo dump.

As he came down on the water, a sneaking wave hit one pontoon and snapped it off. His plane capsized, sending him into the brine. He deployed his life jacket and tried to swim to his craft, but the winds carried it further away. The carrier was too distant to help and not maneuverable enough to save him under fire. He prepared to die.

It was then that he thought of St. Michael Parish and that Holy Names Sister whose name he could not recall but who had promised to pray for him.

‘I said to myself, ‘Sister, if I ever needed help, now is the time,’’ he recalls.

Before long, a Navy destroyer came and pulled Raschio and the photographer out of the water. The ship’s captain told the men that a shark had been circling them.

An exhausted Raschio told the captain about the train tracks and their approximate location. The ship moved in that night and began firing its big guns. After a few salvos, the night sky over the island lit up for miles.

‘Oh, man. Talk about fireworks,’ Raschio recalls. ‘Just like daylight.’

The captain got a citation for destroying the dump.

Near the war’s end, Raschio was transferred to the naval air station at Klamath Falls. He and Maria moved into a chilly cabin nearby and he taught aerial gunnery.

He became a local celebrity because he was the only pilot with war experience. He gained fame once for flying back from San Francisco through a storm with serum needed to save the life of a boy at the nearby Japanese internment camp.

http://www.catholicsentinel.org/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=35&ArticleID=7479

Disgusting Little Pukes Try To Ruin Medal Ceremony For 100-Year-Old Navy Vet Who Had Nothing To Do With Ferguson

10:56 AM 01/05/2015

I realize that nobody who staged this ‘asshole-in’ is reading this, because it’s not on MSNBC. But what purpose do they think they’re serving? Yeah, great, now they’re on YouTube, stomping all over an old Navy vet while chanting a proven lie. Who have they convinced? What did they get done that day?

Say, what was that at the 2:03 mark? Looked like an act of violence to me. Guess it only counts when white people do it.

And then that same loudmouth asshole screamed at the guy appealing for civility, calling him a “token.” Refusing to bellow at the top of your lungs at a bunch of people who have never done anything to you, just because of the color of their skin, that’s “tokenism.” Trying to show some respect to an honored veteran of our armed forces is “tokenism.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/05/disgusting-little-pukes-try-to-ruin-medal-ceremony-for-100-year-old-navy-vet-who-had-nothing-to-do-with-ferguson/

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