Posted on 11/10/2015 7:05:30 AM PST by rktman
Here’s an excerpt from the AVC program, describing the actions of Woody Williams — then a young Marine from West Virginia, trained in demolition and the use of flame-throwers — as the Marines fought to take Mount Suribachi, where, as immortalized in the Marine Corps War Memorial, [4] they would raise the Stars and Stripes:
Not far from the mountain base, several American tanks advanced slowly through the black volcanic sands. Suddenly, they hit a network of reinforced concrete pillboxes and buried mines. They were trapped in the kill zone.
Behind the tanks was the young Marine corporal, Woody Williams. Knowing his comrades were now an easy target, he quickly set forward toward the enemy positions — armed only with his 70 pound flamethrower.
With limited cover from four Marine riflemen, Williams fought his way forward, blasting pillbox after pillbox with his flamethrower…. Marines watched in awe as the young West Virginian, once turned away from the military for being too short, took complete control of the battlefield. He was one man, in one moment, changing the course of an action during one of the toughest battles of the war.
That’s how Woody Williams took responsibility.
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Semper Fi!
How many acts of courage take place in a given day that never get mentioned because most of the troops consider it “doing their job”? The only person I can think of that was looking for a medal to further his possible future political career was john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry.
john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry
He was in Vietnam you know? Just ask him. He’ll remind us all!
“A hero is a common soldier lucky enough to be observed while doing his job” George Patton
One man, with a clear objective and certain enemy and only one course of action “took complete control of the battlefield”. I can only imagine how clear the course became this man.
All the lib cretins and authors of wreck, ruin and subversion thank the freedom of the Constitution that has been left for the sorry bastards by the clear headed purpose and brotherhood to fight and win by this man and so many like him. I hate you, what you do and what you stand for with every fiber of my body and every thought I possess to my dying day.
Thankfully there are still some Woodys around.
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