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To: InvisibleChurch; archy; Travis McGee; SLB

Wow.....


87 posted on 12/17/2011 7:46:05 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos; InvisibleChurch; Travis McGee; SLB
Wow.....

And here's the story that goes with the pictures....

The Lonely War of Lt. Eric Fisher Wood, Jr.

Saturday Evening Post, December 20, 1947
by R. Ernest Dupuy, Col. USA, Ret.

Told for the first time, the story of a young lieutenant who almost single-handedly saved the right flank of an American army in the Battle of the Bulge, "the most amazing example of heroism in World War II."

DARING indeed would be he who named one individual as the epitome of human heroism. Through the ages, men of all nations and all races have fought well and died well. Once in a great while, however, a man emerges who, under extraordinary circumstances, flings down the gauntlet to death, defies fate, says farewell to the conflict only when breath leaves his body. Since chance - and chance alone - decides whether or not there be witnesses to such an exploit, let us say of what follows only that it is the most amazing example of heroism as yet to come out of World War II.

The rest of the story. Merry Christmas, 1944.

174 posted on 12/19/2011 3:52:55 PM PST by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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