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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
that’s par for the DM
The Pearly Gates opened wide. Prayers for his loved ones, and prayers of thanks for a life well lived.
Thank you for the link, Deport.
Charles H. Coolidge - Wikipedia
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Charles Henry Coolidge (August 4, 1921 – April 6, 2021) was a United States Army technical sergeant and a recipient of the United States military’s highest ...
Hershey is highly respected here in New Mexico. Gallup NM was a pretty wild and woolly back in the day, and refused to consider sending their citizens of Japanese ancestry to internment.
Thank you for your Service to our America.
Thank you for that link and the description of his heroics.
My uncle was a radioman for the air force and was on Iwo Jima just a few days after either the landing or after the air strip was secured. I was amazed. “Aw - every once in awhile they would shoot at us from the other side of the field as we were getting things set up, but they were so far away...”
Excerpt on the importance of Iwo Jima found on the interwebs:
By war’s end, a total of 2,451 B-29s made forced landings on the island. This figure represented an estimated 26,961 flight crewmen, many of whom would have perished at sea without the availability of Iwo Jima as a safe landing strip.
One B-29 pilot said, “Whenever I land on this island, I thank God for the men who fought for it.”
RIP Corporal, but it does make me wonder, what the heck do you have to do to make Sargent?
“No greater love hath a Man than this....”
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Tears
I remember a young man asked Woody who his her is. Woody replied, “Jesus Christ is my hero.”
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