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Destroyed pillboxes, rescued two men, shot in chest and eye When Jesse was assigned to the Americal Division in 1944 on the jungle island of Bouganville, he saw three soldiers from his company get badly wounded, cut down by machine...
His Toxic Masculinity sets the bar for us all When Kentucky coal miner Michael McGuire got off his shift at 5 PM he knew he only had less than an hour to take his kid to his first basketball game...
An American Hero of Jewish-Hungarian Descent When Tibor and his family were sent to Nazi death camps in WW2, only he survived. Liberated by American troops at age 13, he vowed to become an American and enlisted in the Army...
Threw Himself into Harm’s Way that others may live In 2019 When a lone gunman started shooting unarmed students at University of North Carolina, Riley immediately raced towards the gunfire. He ran at the gunman who shot him twice before...
Tortured, Shot, and Imprisoned When the Japanese invaded Malaysia in 1941, Vivian was working as a nurse for the Australian Army Nursing Service. Trying to escape to Singapore, the ship she was on was bombed and sank. As she and...
Disobeyed orders and used his airplane as a lifeboat In WW2 when the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sank, there were 1200 men aboard. Their distress call sounded fake so it was ignored. When a patrol plane spotted hundreds of...
