Posted on 02/21/2014 12:08:23 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Ehlers was awarded the Medal of Honor ‘for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty’ on June 9 and 10, 1944, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. He ‘repeatedly led his men against heavily defended enemy strong points exposing himself to deadly hostile fire whenever the situation required heroic and courageous leadership.’ Ehlers heroically defended his unit from ‘withering machine gun fire’ and mortars, personally killing at least seven Nazi soldiers, taking out multiple enemy positions
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RIP, thank-you for your service!
May he and all his brave comrades rest in peace.
Amen.
Thomas Sowell, the former USMC photographer, might have told him to not fight a battle he could not win, like he’s telling Ted Cruz to do with his case
Not in June of 1944 he wouldn’t!
And of course it’s reported in the foreign press. Not one word of this in the Marxist propaganda machine posing as our fair and impartial media here in the US.
Wahoo! Great man in heaven now!
The FCC prohibited it as imperialistic pigdog propaganda.
I’m grateful that so many men like this lived long lives after suffering so much hell. I hope they knew peace, they certainly earned it.
No, I know. Was thinking about these wonderful guys after reading Sowell’s plea to Cruz to run away.
God Bless this fine soldier. He’ll be with his brothers now.
We need this type of courage and tenacity to return this country to a form which this beautiful man served.
Thank God for him and all of the others like him.
You might want to actually look before you say things like that. A quick search finds it covered on The NBC And ABC websites, in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Orange County Register, the Seattle Post Intelligencer and several others.
but what I think is that my own dear WW2 vet parents would be distraught if they were alive today at what our American people have done.....so they're in a blessed and better place now as is this fine gentleman...
Ave atque vale.
a shallow and stupid generation....
92 years.
I’m sure in his last few moments in that landing craft,
he did not believe he would be around for another nine minutes.
RIP.
Where? I was just looking at Abc and NBC news all they got is Olympics
“Saving Private Ryan” did a good job of portraying that.
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