Posted on 09/20/2015 8:03:17 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
And quality of care has declined from then, thanks to Obamacare.
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“After my last return to the helicopter, when I boarded on, I was holding my intestines in my hand.”
Thanks for posting that!
“Roy P. Benavidez, a former Green Beret sergeant who received the Medal of Honor from President Ronald Reagan for heroism while wounded in the Vietnam War, then fought to keep the Government from cutting off his disability payments, died on Sunday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He was 63.
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Shortly before Memorial Day 1983, Mr. Benavidez came forward to say that the Social Security Administration planned to cut off disability payments he had been receiving since he retired from the Army as a master sergeant in 1976. He still had two pieces of shrapnel in his heart and a punctured lung and was in constant pain from his wounds.
The Government, as part of a cost-cutting review that had led to the termination of disability assistance to 350,000 people over the preceding two years, had decided that Mr. Benavidez could find employment.
‘’It seems like they want to open up your wounds and pour a little salt in,’’ Mr. Benavidez said. ‘’I don’t like to use my Medal of Honor for political purposes or personal gain, but if they can do this to me, what will they do to all the others?’’”
Well sir, we know what they do now, just look at the VA.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/04/us/roy-p-benavidez-recipient-of-medal-of-honor-dies-at-63.html
Impossible to believe.
“If they can do this to me, what will they do to all the others?”
I had done a search for articles on him and found a site ( http://www.psywarrior.com/index.html ) which made me connect the Benghazi betrayal.
Is the administration using psyops against our own nation?
Active Duty ping.
A true hero!
Yes, they are.
That pinching nurse needs recognition too.
He was at my OCS graduation.
Wow! That is real heroism.
Please say a little more about the impression he made.
As a former grunt I can only say wow.
Thanks MarvinStinson.
Can somebody here who knows how to post pictures post this picture?
Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez (center) and President Ronald Reagan at his Medal of Honor presentation ceremony in 1981. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Roy_Benavidez_MOH_ceremony.jpg/553px-Roy_Benavidez_MOH_ceremony.jpg
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And bring this url alive?
President Ronald Reagan speech at Medal of Honor Ceremony for MSG Roy Benavidez-—— From O:OO—5:10 on the Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oUtJxE4sjs
From SAME VIDEO 1991 speech by Benavidez— start at 14:30 on the Video
Roy Benavidez, a US soldier in the Vietnam War, performed possibly the most heroic six hours of battle any soldier ever has.
When faced with over 1,000 NVA troops, Roy P. Benavidez, armed with only a knife at the time he arrived, flew into a gunfight to save Special Forces soldiers .
He was shot multiple times and believed dead, until he spit in the face of the doctor trying to put him in a body bag.
It took 13 years to get him the Medal of Honor.
http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-vietnam-war/
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