Category Archives: True Heroes

7 May

Capt. Eric “Winkle” Brown at 94: “Only doing the job”

He was the first man to fly a jet on and off an aircraft carrier. He has set aviation records that will almost certainly never be broken and is revered as one of the greatest test pilots of all time.

But even if you take out the aerobatics, his story is remarkable. Here is a man who narrowly cheated death in the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, helped to liberate Belsen and took 2,000 enemy prisoners armed only with a pistol.

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What’s more, he then had to test all their aircraft. And all this before turning 30. Little wonder that when he arrived at Buckingham Palace at the grand old age of 28 for the fourth time, to receive the AFC in addition to the DSC, MBE and OBE he had already received, George VI greeted him with the words: ‘Not you again.’

Posted in History, military history, True Heroes, United Kingdom | 3 Comments | 292 views
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16 Feb

Blake

Who is “Blake”?

Blake is “the angel”:

Sometimes, the right thing does happen….

Posted in Immigration, Military, Support the Troops, The Iraqi War, True Heroes | 12 Comments | 250 views
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16 Feb

Obama: Chris Kyle? Who’s Chris Kyle?

Two weeks and counting. Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. Her death was caused by choices she made on her own. President Barack Obama reacted within two days WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama’s thoughts and … Continue reading

Posted in Barack Obama, Military, Military Families, PTSD, True Heroes, Uncategorized, WtF? | Tagged , , , , | 80 Comments | 3,894 views
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13 Feb

Changing the Way We Look at PTSD

Today, I had the honor of standing and saluting a great American hero as he passed through our small Texas town. Unfortunately, that honor had to be done posthumously. Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield were killed last week … Continue reading

Posted in Military, PTSD, True Heroes | Tagged , | 16 Comments | 237 views
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12 Feb

Funeral Procession for Chris Kyle, Texan National Hero

WACO (February 12, 2013)—The funeral procession for slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, which the Department of Public Safety says may be the longest in U.S. history, passed through Central Texas on Interstate 35 Tuesday morning on its way to the Texas State Cemetery where Kyle will be laid to rest.

Hundreds of residents lined the highway and packed highway overpasses to pay tribute to the slain war hero.

Posted in Military Families, Obituaries, Support the Troops, The Iraqi War, True Heroes | 5 Comments | 868 views
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11 Feb

Staff Sergeant Clinton L. Romesha to receive MoH, today

President Obama will award Clinton Romesha, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry.

He will be the fourth living recipient to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. Feed begins at 1330 EST.

Scheduled from Feb 11 2013 1:30 PM EST to Feb 11 2013 2:30 PM EST

Posted in Afghanistan, military history, True Heroes | 4 Comments | 356 views
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10 Feb

“Roy”

Retired Army Ranger captain, Blake Hall:

His name was Mohammed; we called him Roy to protect his identity while he accompanied my platoon of scouts and snipers on combat patrols in Baghdad from December 2006 to September 2007. Roy, a mere teenager at the time, was our interpreter — and a highly skilled one. He questioned insurgent leaders we had captured; he served as my eyes and ears among the local population; he was like a younger brother to me and the scout team leader responsible for him. Roy died in a house bombing in Diyala province in January 2008 along with sixAmerican soldiers from the platoon that replaced mine in Iraq. I cry every time I write that sentence, just like I cried the first time I spoke with his mom.

Posted in Hearts & Minds, Military, Support the Troops, The Iraqi War, True Heroes | Leave a comment | 253 views
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4 Jan

Thank You Cpl Boston, One of The Few, The Proud, The Marines

Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.

Posted in 2nd Amendment, Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Freedom, Hollywood Limousine & Learjet Liberals, Humor, Liberal Idiots, Military, MSM Bias, Nanny Government, True Heroes | Tagged , , , , , | 78 Comments | 801 views
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20 Dec

On this day in history: A Higher Call

December 20, 1943, 4 days before Christmas: a young American bomber pilot named Charlie Brown found himself somewhere over Germany, struggling to keep his plane aloft with just one of its four engines still working. They were returning from their … Continue reading

Posted in Book Review, Europe, Germany, military history, On This Day, This Day in History, True Heroes | 20 Comments | 2,088 views
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17 Dec

Aloha, Senator Daniel Inouye: Sept 7, 1924 – Dec 17, 2012

“I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did OK.”
-Senator Daniel Inouye

A little history about the recently deceased Democratic Senator when he was a United States Army badass:

As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively “clenched in a fist that suddenly didn’t belong to me anymore”.[10] Inouye’s horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye tossed the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them to return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, “nobody called off the war!”

Posted in military history, Obituaries, Politics, True Heroes | 4 Comments | 160 views
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