Posted on 04/18/2020 2:16:50 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins of Alabama has succumbed to the coronavirus after a long battle.
The Vietnam War hero was 86 when he died Friday. “We are deeply saddened to notify you that after a courageous battle with COVID-19, Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins departed this life today, with beloved family at his bedside,” according to the foundation that bears his name.
Adkins had been hospitalized in critical condition at East Alabama Medical Center after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in late March, according to the Birmingham News.
He spent 20 years in the Army, 13 as a Green Beret. He deployed to Vietnam three times, his heroic efforts in one 1966 battle later recognized in 2014 with the awarding of the Medal of Honor.
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RIP.
RIP brother, you did your duty with honor. Now it is our turn and I hope we will live up to your standards.
Why was he not given hydroxychloquine and zinc?
Sad, but we all die sometime of something. Living to 86 is a pretty good run for a man. If the virus had not taken him out, something else would have. What is this idea that people in their eighties and nineties would live for another 20 years if only the virus hadn’t gotten them? It’s unrealistic.
WHAT A MAN! May he rest in peace.
What a hero, what a man! May God Jesus bring him to His arms and eternal life.
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