Enjoy your Memorial Day but take time to remember and honor those who gave their lives or a big piece of their lives for our freedom, liberty, along with our nation and our way of life.
Here’s a great piece well worth ready from PJ Media by David Manny… Here’s an excerpt:
Modern Heroes: Different War, Same Warrior
The uniform may have changed. The enemies have as well. But the American Warrior has not.
Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe didn’t think twice. When his Bradley fighting vehicle hit an IED in Iraq, flames engulfed it.
Fuel soaked his uniform. He repeatedly ran into the fire, pulling his men from the inferno.
He was burned over 70 percent of his body. He died days later. His Medal of Honor was finally awarded in 2021, over 15 years too late.
Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer was ordered to stand down as his brothers-in-arms were ambushed in a valley in Afghanistan.
He refused. Alone, he charged into Taliban fire five times in a gun truck, pulling wounded soldiers and their bodies from the kill zone.
He fought not to win glory, but to bring them home.
Technical Sergeant John Chapman, an Air Force combat controller, was believed to have died during a brutal firefight on a snow-covered ridge in Afghanistan.
But drone footage later showed he’d regained consciousness and continued to fight alone against enemy forces to protect a fallen Navy SEAL. He died defending that ground with no one left to see it but God.
These men are not outliers. They continue a bloodline of courage stretching back to Bunker Hill and Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima and Inchon, Khe Sanh, and Kandahar. Their names are known today only because their acts were so great they couldn’t be buried quietly.
And even then, we have only scratched the surface.
Beyond these Medal of Honor recipients are countless others: Rangers, Marines, tankers, medics, pilots, supply drivers, and chaplains. Soldiers who walked into the fire never came out.
Warriors who returned home with missing limbs, missing friends, or invisible wounds. Heroes who never asked for a parade called themselves brave and never got their due.
We highlighted a few, but many more deserve to be remembered.
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