Theodore's World: Vietnam Vets Archives. June 2. 8, 2. 01. Vietnam Veteran's remains return to NCVietnam Veteran's remains return to NCCHARLOTTE, N. C. The remains of Chief Master Sergeant Edwin E. Smith. Edwin Morgan had been Missing In Action for 4. The remains were carried from the plane and put into the hearse. A massive procession of over 1. Rockwell in Rowan County, where he'll be buried next to his wife. Unfortunately on the amount paid was the ultimate sacrifice of his life. The Patriot Guard says there are over 1. Overview of Keeper of the Flame, 1942, directed by George Cukor, with Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, at Turner Classic Movies. Eat Your World Blog – read travel stories, local food stories, recipes, news, interviews with regional food producers, farmers, brewers, chefs. Travel and food photography and videos. Would you like to help Danish companies and organizations prosper in the intersection between science, technology, and innovation? How about doing it in the world’s number one technology hub? Innovation Centre Denmark. Our World Fallen Flame ZippoOur World Fallen Flame Zip Up HoodiesFurk.net is your personal secure storage that fetches media files and lets you stream them immediately You can use it to stream video or listen to your music from PC, smartphone, HTPC or even a game console (XBOX, PS3). TLC has CANCELLED 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' TMZ has learned, in the wake of our story that Mama June is dating a convicted child molester who sexually abused one of her relatives. The decision comes one day after TMZ broke. American soldiers that are still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Wild Thing's comment........ Thank you for bringing this Veteran home.!!! Came out a Master Sergeant. This right here is not relevant. They need to have their butts at home, they need to be in their home units with their family, studying and doing something with their life. Not out here protesting about something that. You won't find it on any maps. An old local at the Tomichi Trading Post said the Park Rangers keep it off maps.. Vietnam Vet somehow used a chopper to sneak the pieces in. Wild Thing's comment..... This is truly amazing. What a great find and to be able to see this, so very special. If you’re childfree, why did you decide not to have kids? We all have our own reasons. As a sociologist who has studied the childfree for many years, Amy knows that one of the most common reasons childfree couples give is. Tom 1st Aviation Brigade, US Army. RVN, Sep. 66- Mar. US Army Special Forces. Posted by Wild Thing at 1. AM. . The bay was the main point of entry for U. S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and his Vietnamese counterpart participated in a first- of- its- kind joint exchange of artifacts from the war in Hanoi. A Department of Defense spokesman said in a statement the department believes Joint Prisoners of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) research teams will greatly benefit from access to the new sites in their search for the approximately 1,2. U. S. In turn, Quang Thanh presented personal letters of U. S. Army Sergeant Steve Flaherty, who was killed in action in 1. Both leaders agreed to return the artifacts to the relatives of the soldiers. The bilateral meeting in Hanoi came a day after Panetta visited the deepwater port and former American military base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam as part of an effort to promote a closer military partnership with the Vietnamese and reassert the U. S. Panetta indicated that the U. S. Navy would like to once more have regular access to the bay, which commands a strategic location on the South China Sea, The Wall Street Journal reported. On Saturday, before arriving in Vietnam, Panetta announced that by the next decade, 6. U. S. Navy warships would be stationed in the Pacific. Panetta is in Asia as part of an effort to explain the new American strategy in the Pacific region and begin to put it into effect by trying to make progress in developing deeper partnerships with Vietnam, Singapore and India. Wild Thing's comment........ I don't trust them, nor China.. I can think of is God protect our troops. Thank you to our awesome Vietnam Veterans. To all our Veterans and our troops today... Sabo Jr., who served with Company B, 3rd Battalion, 5. Infantry, 1. 01st Airborne Division. Sabo will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously in a May 1. White House ceremony for his valor in the Vietnam War. Photo courtesy of George Sabo Vietnam War Hero to Receive Posthumous Medal of Honor. Army News Service. WASHINGTON, April 1. Sabo Jr., a rifleman with the 1. Airborne Division during the Vietnam War, will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor in a May 1. White House officials announced yesterday. Sabo is credited with saving the lives of several of his comrades in Company B, 3rd Battalion, 5. Infantry, when his platoon was ambushed near the Se San River in eastern Cambodia on May 1. Sabo shielded a comrade from an enemy grenade and silenced a machine- gun bunker before he was killed. Sabo's widow, Rose Mary Sabo- Brown, and his brother, George Sabo, have been invited to the White House for the ceremony. President Barack Obama recently telephoned Sabo- Brown to inform her that her late husband would receive the nation's highest award for valor. I couldn't even sleep that night. Is it really real?' I couldn't be more proud of him. He then assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat. While the platoon was securing a re- supply of ammunition, an enemy grenade landed nearby. Sabo picked it up, threw it, and shielded a wounded comrade with his own body - - absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving his comrade's life. Although wounded by the grenade blast, Sabo continued to charge the enemy's bunker. After receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire, he crawled toward the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade into the bunker. The resulting explosion silenced the enemy fire, but also ended Sabo's life. Sabo's unit nominated him for the Medal of Honor, but the paperwork was lost until Tony Mabb, a Vietnam veteran of the 1. Airborne Division and a writer for the Screaming Eagle Association magazine, came across a thick file on Sabo while on a research trip to the National Archives military repository in College Park, Md. Mabb contacted his congresswoman, who recommended that the Defense Department reconsider a medal of valor for Sabo. Mabb also made contact with Sabo's widow. He would give you the shirt off his back. That's the kind of man he was. I wish we all could have thanked you in person. America owes our Veterans and POW/MIA's more then words could ever express. Tom 1st Aviation Brigade, US Army. RVN, Sep. 66- Mar. US Army Special Forces. Posted by Wild Thing at 0. AM. . Elzinga of Shedd, Ore., was to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., on Friday. Elzinga and his co- pilot went missing during a March 2. O- 1. G Bird Dog aircraft over Laos, according to a release. Search- and- rescue missions were held for two days after the two were declared missing. Teams from the U. S. We suffered and 6. We did our duty like the veterans of every war before us and those that have come after. This wall, scarred with the names of our fallen, remembers them so well with a dignified silence. Thank you for your service, our brothers. Welcome Home and thank you!!! Battalion 9th Marine Regiment. Marines aka The Walking Dead VN 6. Posted by Wild Thing at 0. AM. . Benavides Medal of Honor Recipient ~ Vietnam Veteran. Note from the person that made the video. The most interesting part for me was something I didn't find out until after I created this photoplay, was that this was Roy's second tour. He had been so gravely wounded, by stepping on a landmine, on his first tour that he was drummed out of the Army after returning. Roy built his body back up and returned to the service after proving himself fit and joined the elite Green Beret's and went back to Vietnam for a second tour for which he received the Medal of Honor. Benavidez remarkable courage in Vietnam that earned the Medal Of Honor. How remarkable was he? The Navy named a ship after this soldier extraordinaire. As the medevac chopper landed the wounded were examined one by one. Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez could only hear what was going on around him. He had over thirty seven puncture wounds. His intestines were exposed. He could not see as his eyes were caked in blood and unable to open. Neither could he speak, his jaw broken, clubbed by a North Vietnamese rifle. But he knew what was happening, and it was the scariest moment of his life, even more so than the earlier events of the day. He lay in a body bag, bathed in his own blood. Jerry Cottingham, a friend screamed . When the doctor arrived he placed his hand on Roy's chest to feel for a heartbeat. He pronounced him dead. The physician shook his head. Benavidez did the only thing he could think of to let the doctor know that he was alive. He spit in the doctor's face. The surprised doctor reversed Roy's condition from dead to . The 3. 2- year- old son of a Texas sharecropper had just performed for six hours one of the most remarkable feats of the Vietnam War. Benavidez, part Yaqui Indian and part Mexican, was a seventh- grade dropout and an orphan who grew up taunted by the term . Roy Benavidez's ordeal began at Loc Ninh, a Green Beret outpost near the Cambodian border. It was 1: 3. 0 p. May 2, 1. 96. 8. A chaplain was holding a prayer service around a jeep for the sergeant and several other soldiers. Suddenly, shouts rang out from a nearby short- wave radio. With out orders, Benavidez volunteered so quickly that he didn't even bring his M- 1. The sole weapon he carried was a bowie knife on his belt. Airborne, they spotted the soldiers in a tight circle. A few hundred enemy troops surrounded them in the jungle, some within 2. Americans' position. The chopper dropped low, ran into withering fire and quickly retreated. Spotting a small clearing 7. Benavidez told the pilot, . Benavidez made the sign of the cross, jumped out carrying a medic bag and began running the 7. Almost immediately, Benavidez was hit by an AK- 4. He stumbled and fell, but got back up convincing himself that he'd only snagged a thorn bush and kept running to the brush pile where Wright's men lay. An exploding hand grenade knocked him down and ripped his face with shrapnel. He shouted prayers, got up again and staggered to the men. Four of the soldiers were dead, the other eight wounded and pinned down in two groups. Benavidez bound their wounds, injected morphine and, ignoring NVA bullets and grenades, passed around ammunition that he had taken from several bodies and armed himself with an AK. Then Benavidez directed air strikes and called for the Huey helicopter to a landing near one group. While calling in support he was shot again in the right thigh, his second gunshot wound. He dragged the dead and wounded aboard. The chopper lifted a few feet off the ground and moved toward the second group, with Benavidez running beneath it, firing a rifle he had picked up. He spotted the body of the team leader Sergeant First Class Wright.
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