Warning: This video is not yet rated for liberals, watch at your own risk. Conservatives will find it rewarding.
http://www.greatamericans.com/video/Portraits-of-Valor-Roy-Benavide
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Hooah. Well done, Master Sergeant and thank you.
Here is a fitting performance of “Fanfare For The Common Man”.
Oops. Here’s the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TLV-4HJ41s
That was really good, although I still like this one even better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwkpfSMOyXU Which reminds of one of the best all time old west gunfights…if you’ve never seen this clip, you should. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uFarFM9sow
Thank you Jack. This man surely found his purpose and never gave up. I am in awe of such as these and so very grateful for his service. More than that I am thankful that he stands as an example, particularly to young men who need good role models and guidance. He’s so right too…we are all Americans! God bless him.
There are probably more people than you would think who in that one moment of great danger react without hesitation and does what needs to be done. However, as time goes on it seem like lawyers and lawsuits are slowly taking the fire out of civilians to act in a time of need. We’re being made into wimps by the tort system who would have us sued if we risked much and then something went wrong. There’s more pressure on people these days to do nothing than there is to take a chance and do the right thing.
I’ve seen courageous things happen in law enforcement many, many times. It is rarely even notice and because of the training and skill of the individual officer nobody dies, so there is no headlines. If what happens to your average cop in the course of a couple of years happened to a military man in combat he would get a medal. Cops on the other hand just get a paycheck and if they’re lucky maybe a pat on the back by the L-T who says nice job and then life moves on as if it never happened. This is not to take anything away from the fantastic hero depicted here in the video or any soldier in harms way, I’m just saying acts of great bravery happen almost daily in law enforcement and few even notice. That’s just the nature of their job.
We sure need more American’s like him don’t we?
Duty,Honor and Country, if only the present administration in DC would, or even could! comprehend the meaning of these words.
What an inspirational story of a man worthy of our individual gratitude and the respect of our nation.
But, hearing of our wounded warriors in Walter Reed hospital, who lost arms and legs, being told the café in their building would be closed on weekends should be enough to make every American see red.
They would somehow have to get to the closest café, a half mile away. Some warriors said they’d have to go without eating.
The decision to close the café was reversed after Fox News got involved, but it should never have happened in the first place.
Our Congress just gave themselves and their aids, who all get paid over $100k a year, paid health care coverage before going on vacation and they left our warriors without the basic necessity of life, food.
Shame, this Congress disgust me! I hope every one of them who voted to pass that bill is voted out.
“In about-face, Walter Reed opens dining hall to wounded warriors after Fox News reporting.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/15/military-reverses-opens-dining-hall-to-wounded-warriors-after-fox-news/
Here’s another story about one of our heroes—
June 10, 1944, somewhere over Romania. Carl Hoenshell and his wingman Stub Hatch, flying their P-38 lightnings, are attempting to escort a couple of other shot up P-38’s home. As six German Me-109 fighters attack, the two Americans turn into them with the intent of breaking up
the German formation. It doesn’t work—the Germans hold formation, and the advantage. Carl orders his wingman to run for cover, and leads the Germans away, eventually being shot down and killed over Yugoslavia. Here’s the kicker—when the Americans turned to meet the on-coming Germans, each knew they were both out of ammo.
Read Stub Hatch’s first hand account or the entire mission here, starting on page 261.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fpv23u8dlyQC&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=p38+pilot+Carl+Hoenshell&source=bl&ots=kbALg3-5K4&sig=K1lcneDgpgca37ZXOdgdvLO4_pg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OkoQUo6JO-m92gW4qIHoAw&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=p38%20pilot%20Carl%20Hoenshell&f=false
Read here how Carl’s niece and nephew finally found a brought his remains home 59 years later.
http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/world-war-ii-ironmans-remains-finally-return-home/5987.html
This is response to #4 who did not leave a name: No one is trying to take anything away from our men in blue, but give me a brake, too bad that we can’t send you to the war in Viet Nam as an infantryman for a year and do what this man did for us.
Paul, I guess you were addressing me because I was number 4. I’m a veteran and I wore two uniforms, army and navy. I also retired as a 1SG from the reserves in CA. In addition spent a long time in a 3rd uniform, a police uniform. Let me tell you there is very little difference between the stress of a combat patrol or say being a cop with a search warrant, walking up a long flight stairs in a drug infested apartment house, knowing that at any moment you could be discovered and all hell could break loose. Then there’s no where to take cover, so you just have to trust to luck and stealth and hope you can get into position before that happens. And that’s but one of thousands other examples, from car stops, raids, SWAT operations to ordinary family fights, all could put you in your grave real quick, just like you were in combat in a foreign country and walked into a Sh — storm!
I’m not a brave guy, but I always felt duty bound to see things through and do the best that I could. In the process I’ve had a lot of close calls most civilians will never experience. I’ve seen plenty of death and once you have smelled rotting flesh you never forget. So, when somebody says you should have been in his shoes… maybe I was. I’ve seen and been through an awful lot…with emphasis on the awful.
Both cops and military have a lot in common in this respect and it’s not to say one is better or braver than the other. Not at all, just different circumstances, but the same high risks. Also same general physical and mental effects too. I’m proud of all of them.
Guess I probably could have said it better in my previous comment, but this is all that I meant: Military has heros and so does law enforcement, and sometimes it’s the same guy. There were a number of cops who were placed on active duty to go to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hope that clears up any misunderstandings on what I was trying to say?
Paul If you are a Viet Nam Vet be assured that most who post here at Post Scripts appreciate your service to our country and what our guys did over there. A lot of us are in that general age group and abhor the treatment our troops received when they returned home from that war. You’ll find a lot of love here. Thank you for taking the time to comment.