Asst. Chief Green

Assistant Chief
Corpus Christi Police Department

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U.S. Army Private First Class Jeremy Wayne Ehle died on April 2, 2006 from wounds sustained when his dismounted patrol came under enemy small arms fire during combat operations in Hit, Iraq. Jeremy was 19 years old and from Richmond, Virginia. 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division. Remember Jeremy.🇺🇸

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Massachusetts Exemplary Army
Corporal Donald Joseph Greene
Gave All July 29, 1968 at 21
Remember Donald today.
Bronze Star #American Hero.🇺🇸🎖️

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Pennsylvania Marine Corps Captain Michael Charles Wunsch selflessly sacrificed his life in the service of our country on July 28, 1969 in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. For his extraordinary heroism and bravery that day, Michael was awarded the Silver Star. #American Hero 🇺🇸

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United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Sergio Hernandez Escobar was killed in action on October 8, 2005 in Anbar Province, Iraq. Sergio was 18 years old and from Pasadena, California. 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Remember Sergio. American Hero.🇺🇸

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United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jonathan Ruben Flores was killed in action on June 15, 2005 in Anbar Province, Iraq. Jonathan was 18 years old and from San Antonio, Texas. 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Remember Jonathan. American Hero.🇺🇸

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U.S. Marine Corps Corporal William Stephen Clark was killed July 28, 1968 Sikorsky CH-53 crash, engine fire in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. Steve was 21 from Eau Gallie, Florida. HMH-463, MAG-16, 1st MAW, III MAF. Aircraft Systems Tech. AM, Semper Fi. #American Hero 🇺🇸

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Tennessee Army Squad Leader
SSGT Duane Michael Rousseau
Gave All July 28, 1969 at 21
Remember Mickey today.
Bronze Star #American Hero🇺🇸🎖

[The Forgotten War @ForgottenWarPic]

He was killed defending a nothing little outpost two days before the war ended. Forty eight hours. If he had lived through one more fight, Ambrosio Guillen would have gone home.

Guillen was a Marine staff sergeant from El Paso, Texas, the son of Mexican immigrants. By late July 1953 everyone in Korea knew it was almost over. The armistice was basically done, the negotiators were finishing the paperwork, and every man on the line was doing the same quiet math, just stay alive a few more days and you get to go home. But the fighting had not stopped, and out on the outpost hills men were still killing and dying over ground that would be abandoned the moment the ink dried.

On the night of July 25, Guillen and his platoon were holding one of those outposts, forward of the main line, when the enemy came at them in overwhelming numbers, something like two battalions against a handful of Marines, behind a storm of mortar and artillery fire.

Guillen did not hunker down and wait it out, which is what a man two days from freedom might be forgiven for doing. He got up and moved. He walked through the incoming fire to position his men, to steady them, to direct their defense, and above all to get the wounded gathered up and carried back to safety. He kept exposing himself over and over to do it.

Somewhere in that fight he was critically wounded. And here is the measure of the man. He refused to be treated. He waved off help for himself and kept right on directing his Marines, standing in the fire, running the defense of that outpost until the enemy was finally beaten back and thrown off the hill.

The Marines held. Guillen's men survived because he would not sit down and would not quit. And a few hours after the fight was won, Staff Sergeant Guillen died of his wounds.

Two days later, the guns went silent for good. He had come within a breath of making it. His country gave him the Medal of Honor, and there is a veterans home named for him in El Paso to this day. He is one of the last men to give everything in a war that was already ending, holding a piece of ground that did not matter, so that the men beside him would live to see the peace he never got to.

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U.S. Army Specialist Four Bobby Gene Peterson was killed in action July 27, 1967 in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam. Bobby had just turned 20 from Idaho Falls, Idaho. HHC, 1st BN, 28th Infantry, 1st INFDIV. Remember Bobby today. Light Vehicle Mechanic #American Hero 🇺🇸

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United States Army
Chief Warrant Officer
Larry Dexter Carlisle
July 27, 1946 - June 11, 1968
DFC - BSM - 34 AM - PH
Happy Heavenly Birthday Warrior. Chopper pilot. #American Hero🎖️🇺🇸

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Indiana U.S. Army Sergeant Steven V. “Istvan” Nagy was killed in action on July 27, 1969 in Laos. Steven was a 32 year old Special Forces soldier. Remember Steven today. De Oppresso Liber.
Bronze Star #American Hero.🇺🇸🎖

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United States Marine Corps Corporal Larry Kent Taylor was killed in action on July 27, 1968 in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. Larry was 20 years old and from Broken Bow, Oklahoma. H&S Company, 1st Engineer Battalion. Remember Larry today. He is an American Hero.🇺🇸

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U.S. Army Special Forces Sergeant First Class Paul Donald Spillane was killed in action July 26, 1968 in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam. Paul 33 served 14 yrs from Leicester, Massachusetts. DET B-52 (Project Delta), 5th SF Group. BSM, AM. De oppresso liber #American Hero🎖️🦅🇺🇸

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Good Night.🇺🇸

Remember Perry today.

Forever 19.

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Happy Heavenly 79th Birthday
DEA Special Agent
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena
July 26, 1947 - February 9, 1985
Remember Kiki today.
#American Hero ⚔️🇺🇸

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Arkansas Exceptional Army
Sergeant Jimmy Don Smith
Gave All July 26, 1970 at 21
Remember Jimmy he was the best.
Bronze Star/Valor #American Hero🎖🇺🇸

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

If you have seen Forrest Gump, you have already seen Sammy Davis get the Medal of Honor. In the film, when President Johnson drapes the medal around Forrest's neck, that is real footage of Johnson doing it to Davis, with Tom Hanks's face dropped in. Gump's medal was loosely based on a real citation, and the real man earned it in the Mekong Delta in the middle of the night.

Davis was a sergeant, an artilleryman, at a small fire support base west of Cai Lay. In the early hours of November 18, 1967, a massive Viet Cong force, many times the size of the little garrison, came out of the dark and tried to overrun it. Mortars and recoilless rifles walked across the position, blowing apart guns and dropping men everywhere. A river was the only thing between the enemy and the howitzers.

Davis grabbed a machine gun to cover his gun crew, and a recoilless rifle round blew him off his feet and into a foxhole. He got up. His back was broken, he was burned and bleeding, and his gun crew was down, so he went to the 105mm howitzer and worked it almost alone, loading and firing and getting knocked flat by its own recoil onto his shattered back, then getting up and doing it again. He fired beehive rounds, packed with thousands of little darts, straight into the attackers at point blank range.

Then he heard wounded Americans calling from across the river, on the enemy's side. Sammy Davis could not swim. His back was broken. None of that stopped him. He grabbed an air mattress, pushed off into the water under fire, and paddled across to the far bank. He found three wounded men and brought them back across that river one at a time, refusing to leave a single one on the wrong side. Only after they were safe would he let anyone deal with his own wounds.

President Johnson gave him the Medal of Honor in 1968. Davis lived, healed as much as a man heals from that, and spent the decades since as one of the most beloved figures in the Medal of Honor community, traveling the country to talk to kids and veterans. He is alive today, an old soldier from Indiana who once crossed a river he could not swim, on an air mattress, with a broken back, because men on the other side needed him. The movie borrowed his moment. The real story is better.

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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Donald Eugene Schumacher was killed in action July 25, 1966 in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. Donald was 20 from Lacona, Iowa. 1st Bridge Co. 7th Engineer BN, 3rd MARDIV, III MAF Remember Donald today. Combat Engineer Warrior #American Hero 🇺🇸

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United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Leon Bertrand Deraps was killed in action on May 6, 2006 in Anbar Province, Iraq. Leon was 19 years old and from Jamestown, Missouri. 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group. Remember Leon. He is an American Hero.🇺🇸

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U.S. Army Sergeant Martin Willard Wright was killed by undetonated ordinance July 25, 1970 while clearing the perimeter. Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. Marty was 21 from Schoharie, New York. Bravo TRP, 2nd SQDN, 17th Cavalry 101st ABNDIV. Remember Marty #American Hero 🇺🇸🦅