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The last Medal of Honor recipient to have stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day dies at 92
Daily mail ^ | 2-21-14 | Ryan Gorman

Posted on 02/21/2014 12:08:23 PM PST by TurboZamboni

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

If you read the Daily Mail piece, you can see that they just picked it up from NBC.


21 posted on 02/21/2014 12:56:18 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: TurboZamboni

Aside from Christ on his way to Calvary,
have there ever been any other men who were
so certain they were about to give up their
lives for others?


22 posted on 02/21/2014 12:58:18 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

His brother died on the beach....Ehlers learned of it several days later.


23 posted on 02/21/2014 12:58:26 PM PST by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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To: TurboZamboni

Bummer. MOH recpients are the very best of us. There was a time when a grateful nation looked upon these men in awe and thankfulness. There are many excellent books(nothing by Brokaw or Rather) that detail some of the heroics of our MOH winners. What some of these men did for their fellow soldiers is beyond words. Learning about it from the DM is a kick in the balls and an indictment of our leftist media.


24 posted on 02/21/2014 1:03:10 PM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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Men like this are why half-staff was conceived.


             

25 posted on 02/21/2014 1:15:34 PM PST by tomkat
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To: TurboZamboni

Now he's with his true buddies. God bless.

26 posted on 02/21/2014 1:22:08 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TurboZamboni

My Dad was there on that beach those same days. He earned a bronze star, a silver star, and a purple heart. They may have even been in the same unit.


27 posted on 02/21/2014 1:26:09 PM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: LeonardFMason

True.

I don’t equate anyone in the Senate with a MOH winner.
This guy had stones bigger than all the Senate.


28 posted on 02/21/2014 1:33:53 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: TurboZamboni

““Saving Private Ryan” did a good job of portraying that.”

My Dad died long before that movie came out, but when I first saw it was like he wrote the script. He told me what it was like, and watching it was like seeing his words played out.

It really was kinda spooky, right down to the guys puking on the ride in the landing craft.


29 posted on 02/21/2014 1:38:45 PM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: TurboZamboni

RIP, to a true hero


30 posted on 02/21/2014 1:41:41 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: TurboZamboni

I remember him saying his brother had been killed in Italy just before D Day and how determined it had made him. We can only wonder where we get such fine men s those who fought and beat the Axis.


31 posted on 02/21/2014 2:05:18 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Would you believe it ?

NBC News has a story

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sgt-walter-ehlers-wwii-medal-honor-recipient-dies-92-n34836


32 posted on 02/21/2014 3:00:05 PM PST by re_tail20
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To: stanne

Alrighty then.


33 posted on 02/21/2014 3:42:31 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: re_tail20

No, someone must have hacked the site. The National oBama Channel would never post that story.


34 posted on 02/21/2014 4:20:44 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
New York Times has the story now.
35 posted on 02/21/2014 7:38:40 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

RIP brave hero.


36 posted on 02/21/2014 7:43:19 PM PST by Ciexyz
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