thanks for posting...worth the read.
Great story. One of my favorite episodes of NCIS has Gibbs’ father dragging Gibbs to a hospice to meet the man, a former German soldier, who showed him the way home and saved his life. Very moving. I wonder whether it was inspired by this story.
Great story. Thanks for posting it.
Saving the life of an enemy soldier is not an unusual thing.
I was on a coastal patrol aboard a Vietnamese boat when we were asked to investigate something up a small slip of a canal. A few hundred yards in and we took fire from bushes along the shore. We returned fire and when the shooting stopped, we went to check the damage. There were several dead VC and one young woman in her early 20s with 3 rounds in her chest. I took her AK47 from her hand, slowed the flow of blood and we got a medevac helicopter to get her to a hospital. Five or six weeks later, my C.O. received a note from the womens’ POW camp, It was a thank you note from her for saving her life.
From the comments:
Honor.
Difficult to convey in a movie, books; you have to read them.
Honor, a lesson not from the TV, lost to many.
Very touching
Thank you for posting the link to this excellent true story.
A great story for the morning of Memorial Day. Thank you!
Most people in this country simply do not have a clue.
I like this story. The German pilot get A sudden and unexplained ping of conscience and this crew makes it to land.
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