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America's Last World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies
FoxNews ^ | June 29, 2022 | Anders Hagstrom | Fox News

Posted on 06/29/2022 11:00:04 AM PDT by luvie

Hershel "Woody" Williams, America's last surviving World War II veteran to have received a Medal of Honor, passed away surrounded by family on Wednesday morning.

Williams, 98, was the last of the 473 American service members who received a Medal of Honor in WWII. Williams spent his final days with family at a hospital in his home state of West Virginia. Family members called on Americans to pray for him on Tuesday.

"As he lives out his last days, we welcome and appreciate any additional prayers lifted up on behalf of Woody and his family," his family said in a statement on his condition at the time.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: hero; medalofhonor; military; moh; ww2; wwii
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Williams, 98, received the medal for his heroism on Iwo Jima.
A true hero in every way!


1 posted on 06/29/2022 11:00:04 AM PDT by luvie
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Pinging all patriots......


2 posted on 06/29/2022 11:00:34 AM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American🇺🇸)
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To: luvie

Wow 98

RIP


3 posted on 06/29/2022 11:01:16 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: luvie

R.I.P. Sir. He’s in a better place far away from fag wokery..


4 posted on 06/29/2022 11:02:03 AM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: luvie

Rest In Peace Woody!


5 posted on 06/29/2022 11:02:36 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: luvie

RIP


6 posted on 06/29/2022 11:03:27 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: luvie

Thank you, sir. Rest in Peace.


7 posted on 06/29/2022 11:03:27 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: luvie

I’ve met Woody a couple times. A heck of a nice guy. This is good for him, but a loss for the planet.


8 posted on 06/29/2022 11:05:33 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: luvie

This closes a vital chapter in American History, the bravery and the honor of these soldiers, honored with the highest citation of our Nation. Rest In Peace, Heroes.


9 posted on 06/29/2022 11:07:29 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: luvie

He was a very short man, like 5-3 or 5-4, he was not in the first wave on Iwo Jima, when he came ashore the Marines were bogged down taking one of the airfields on Iwo Jima, his commanding officer asked him if he could take out 1 of the 4-5 Japanese bunkers stopping the advance, he took on the assignment with a flame thrower, under covering fire, he managed to get on top of the first bunker and shot a flame thru the air vent that destroyed the bunker, he continued on destroying multiple Japanese Bunkers, multiple times he had to retrieve addition tanks for the flame thrower from the beach.

He was also on the ground when the flag was raised on Mt. Suribachi.

What an incredible man with an incredible story.


10 posted on 06/29/2022 11:08:23 AM PDT by srmanuel
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RIP, may God bless

question: the DM has a picture of him wi the CIB

would this be a situational/inter-service award only issued during the war?

never seen it before, and it’s a real pic


11 posted on 06/29/2022 11:09:14 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: luvie
RIP, Sir


12 posted on 06/29/2022 11:10:25 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: luvie

RIP


13 posted on 06/29/2022 11:10:37 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: luvie

This is truly a milestone. A bittersweet one in that the last member of a generation of young Americans who were asked to do perhaps the most challenging and courageous undertaking in all of human history like no other generation before or since is gone.

And most Americans today have no clue.

Thank you for my freedom Mr. Williams.

May the earth rest lightly on you.


14 posted on 06/29/2022 11:12:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: luvie

A very sad day...
R.I.P Woody Williams...
An American Hero...
Semper Fi...


15 posted on 06/29/2022 11:15:34 AM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: Chode

The Marines don’t get the CIB. If someone got the CIB for earlier Army service they can get permission to wear the CIB. The Marines have the Combat Action ribbon but it wasn’t created until 1969.


16 posted on 06/29/2022 11:15:57 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: luvie

Looks like a heck of a guy.

God bless him, and I hope to get to meet him one day.


17 posted on 06/29/2022 11:16:33 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: luvie

Bttt.

5.56mm


18 posted on 06/29/2022 11:17:19 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: Seruzawa

i don’t know if he was in the Army before the Marines, but i doubt it

here’s the pic

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/29/18/59676251-10965763-A_portrait_of_Hershel_Woody_Williams_with_his_Medal_of_Honor_fro-m-9_1656522775519.jpg


19 posted on 06/29/2022 11:23:37 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

Oh, I believed you. I just don’t know why a Marine would have a CIB. Maybe a special circumstance of some sort. He certainly deserved one, as did all the Marines on IWO. As far as I’m concerned they all deserve a MOA.


20 posted on 06/29/2022 11:32:04 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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