Posted on 03/04/2008 4:10:31 PM PST by neverdem
He also deserves a medal just for having to live a life named after jackass sellout extrordinaire Woodrow Wilson.
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In case you don't know, Ira Hayes was one of the Flag Raisers on Iwo Jima. Everyone is familiar with the picture that shows the raising of the flag, but few know the names of the men who actually raised it. Ira Hayes was one of them and died of alcoholism at an early age. The ballad of Ira Hayes is almost forgotten now but his actions live on.
Actually, I lot of them were not ignored. Several Apaches were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Apache wars...here is one:
http://www.homeofheroes.com/photos/1_indian/rowdy_bw.html
My first thought were “here is another politically correct decoration.” After reading it tho, it was richly deserved.
Well deserved.
God bless this true American hero.
ALCHESAY
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1872-73. Entered service at: Camp Verde, Ariz. Born: 1853, Arizona Territory. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
BLANQUET
Rank and organization: Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1872-73. Entered service at:------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
CHIQUITO
Rank and organization: Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1871-73. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
CO-RUX-TE-CHOD-ISH (Mad Bear)
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Pawnee Scouts, U.S. Army. Place and date: At Republican River, Kans., 8 July 1869. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Nebraska. Date of issue: 24 August 1869. Citation: Ran out from the command in pursuit of a dismounted Indian; was shot down and badly wounded by a bullet from his own command.
ELSATSOOSU
Rank and organization: Corporal, Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1872-73. Entered service at:------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
JIM
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1871-73. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Arizona Territory. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
KELSAY
Rank and organization: Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1872-73. Entered service at:------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
KOSOHA
Rank and organization: Indian Scouts. Place and date: Winter of 1872-73. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
MACHOL
Rank and organization: Private, Indian Scouts. Place and date: Arizona, 1872-73. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaign and engagements with Apaches.
NANNASADDIE
Rank and organization: Indian Scouts. Place and date: 1872-73. Entered service at:------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
NANTAJE (NANTAHE)
Rank and organization: Indian Scouts. Place and date: 1872-73. Entered service at:------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 12 April 1875. Citation: Gallant conduct during campaigns and engagements with Apaches.
ROWDY
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, Indian Scouts. Place and date: Arizona, 7 March 1890. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Arizona. Date of issue: 15 May 1890. Citation: Bravery in action with Apache Indians.
Thanks for the pics & link!
Very Interesting, Thanks.
One of my favorite books is “Hanta Yo” by Ruth Beebe Hill. Hanta Yo is “clear the way” in Lakota (Sioux) language. It tells the srory of several generations of the Lakota, as told to her by the elders, and submitted back for their approval.
Master Sgt. Woody Keeble cleared the way for many to follow.
God bless him.
Bookmark.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
“A Man Without a Country”
http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/02/22/7566-first-sioux-to-receive-medal-of-honor/
Richly deserved, a real hero.
Sir Walter Scott!? I thought that was Willard Scott!
Thank you for posting. What a warrior!! From a long line of Dakota warriors.
When you see what he did, he earned the Medal of Honor several times over. Too bad the awarding is posthumous.
Btw, it looks as thought the forum is selecting an article to feature each day -— among their other changes -— and this is the one. Good idea.
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