Some gave all…
Wikimedia CommonsWe hope you’re preparing for a relaxing Memorial Day while not losing sight of its deeper meaning and the reality that without the sacrifice of those who died in service to our country, our world today would look very different.
With the reason why we celebrate Memorial Day fresh in our minds, we want to go over the lives of four largely forgotten American soldiers whose commitment to service and willingness to sacrifice represents the best of America.
Here are four heroes that gave what President Abraham Lincoln called the “last full measure of devotion.”
Freddie Stowers
Robert Ward, DOD PA via Wikimedia CommonsAt the Congress’s recommendation in 1990, the Department of the Army investigated to determine if any service members or veterans were deserving of the Medal of Honor, posthumous or otherwise.
Freddie Stowers’ battlefield heroics, forgotten for more than 70 years, were revealed to the world shortly after that.
While serving in a segregated American unit under French command, officers ordered Stowers’ company to seize a heavily fortified hill in the Ardennes region of France.
The surviving German defenders feigned surrender after the initial American advance, only to eliminate one-half of Stowers’ company in an ambush. As the highest-ranking survivor, Stowers reorganized his comrades and led them in a successful assault to take the first trench line. During his company’s advance on the hill’s second defensive ring, enemy fire hit Stowers twice. He continued to urge his men forward, even after he had collapsed from blood loss. Despite Stowers’ death, his brother-in-arms took the hill that day.
Ben L. Salomon
National Park Service via Wikimedia CommonsSalomon joined the Army as a dentist before eventually becoming a battalion field surgeon. While the Battle of Saipan approached its climax on July 7, 1944, Salomon tended to wounded American soldiers at an aid station. None of the Americans knew the largest banzai charge of the war was about to slam into the 105th Infantry Regiment. Nearly 4,500 Japanese soldiers and civilians — many without firearms, some already maimed — overran the forward foxhole line outside and sprinted toward the field hospital. Salomon ordered it’s occupants evacuation while providing covering fire.
His fate amid the chaos in the 15-hour pitched battle was initially unknown, but, eventually, GIs found the doctor’s mutilated body slumped over a machine gun with 98 dead Japanese soldiers strewn in front of it. He had sustained nearly 200 gunshot and bayonet wounds.
Frank Luke Jr.
Wikimedia CommonsLuke, the second most prolific American fighter ace of World War I, next to Eddie Rickenbacker — who survived the conflict — earned the Medal of Honor. After downing 18 aircraft in the summer and early fall of 1918, the headstrong pilot went on a final strafing run against enemy barrage balloons when a German machine gunner from the ground mortally wounded him with a single bullet. Defiant till the end, Luke landed his plane and expired from blood loss while shooting at nearby Germans.
William H. Pitsenbarger
NARA photo 111-CCV-334-CC34052 by SSgt Howard C. Breedlove via Wikimedia CommonsPitsenbarger flew in over 300 rescue missions in Vietnam before his death in 1966. On April 11 of that year, he participated in the rescue of half a dozen wounded GIs near the village of Cam My.
Almost immediately, things went wrong for the Americans. Pitsenbarger had to waive off his air support after the helicopters came under withering small arms fire. Throughout the Battle of Xa Cam My, he made improvised splints and stretchers, armed the wounded who could fight and led them in heroic resistance to fend off the encroaching Viet Cong.
Sometime during the night, a VC sniper fired the shot that claimed Pitsenbarger’s life. He was found still clutching a medkit in one hand and rifle in the other.
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Fortunately, Frank Luke is not that forgotten. The largest Air Force Base in his native Arizona, in the Phoenix area, is named after him. Although by now the story of his heroism is forgotten by most Americans.
John w. Harvey
When Ben L Soloman came up for the draft he told his draft board that he needed 6 months to be finished as a dentist. They said Okey. The 6th months passed and he did not get a call. He enlisted and finished basic training and was assigned before they found out he was a Dentist. With hius unit he would go on patrol on some days and act as a dentist on others. He was finally assigned to a medical unit. According to0 the bookl I read the reason he was not awarded the MOH was that when he was killed he was wearing a Red Cross armband. I read the book when I was a young soldier.
Sincerely
SFC (Ret) John W. Harvey
Is there a book that tells about all of the CMH honored? I know the medal was first awarded during the Revolutionary war. From that first one to date how many while still alive and how many posthumously?
I am disappointed in the brevity of these stories. They tell the death of the man and little about his life, who he was or even his rank.
One of the greatest heroes in my life is Marine lieutenant Gerald “Jerry “ Paulson who was killed in Vietnam. Jerry and I went through the officer candidate and basic school training together. We graduated in November 1968 went on leave and met up in California flew to Okinawa and on to Vietnam. From DaNang I went south with the First Marines and Jerry went north. He was killed when a convoy his platoon was guarding was ambushed. Jerry gave his all for God, Country, and Corps. To Patty and al his sisters Happy Memorial Day. Jerry may be gone but 50 plus years later not forgotten!
Compare these heroes who gave their lives defending our country WITH Pelosi, Schumer, Murkowski, McConnell and Cornyn.
Real heroes who fought and fought and fought. And then you have the traitors who would rather surrender to Bloomberg and Biden.
Here is their voting record.
Pelosi 11%
Schumer 4%
Murkowski 22%
McConnell 28%
Cornyn 33%.
These records are per Conservative Review Scorecard.
So you see that our congress is full of traitors. People who are willing to sell our country to the elite ONE WORLD ORDER and happily take our economy down.
You don’t actually believe that the LOCK DOWN was designed to save lives, do you?
A 16 year old girl just died in Dallas. Her doctor father demanded an autopsy. She died of
B Victoria flu virus. And yes, a great many others who they claim died of corona also died of the flu. This virus was not even addressed by the FLU SHOT.