U.S. Army Air Forces officer Raymond Lee Knight of Texas was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on April 25, 1945, in the Apennine Mountains in Italy.
Knight joined the army in 1942, and by April 24-25, 1945, was a first lieutenant piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. On those two days in the northern Po Valley of Italy, he repeatedly volunteered to lead attacks on enemy air bases. He exposed his aircraft to intense hostile fire in low-altitude reconnaissance and strafing missions. During a mission on April 25, his airplane was severely damaged by anti-aircraft fire. Knowing that his unit was short on aircraft, he decided against parachuting to safety and instead attempted to fly the Thunderbolt back to his home airbase, but crashed in the Apennine Mountains and was killed. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in September 1945.
Knight was 22 years old when he died.
#WeRememberThem
So an Enlisted U.S. Army Soldier gets investigated, arrested and charged for placing a bet in under a month while corrupt Politicians engaging in Pay-For-Play, Insider Trading and outright Fruad for decades walk freely amongst us?
Fck All the Way Off
🇺🇸It was April 24, 1972 in Tân Cảnh. Kontum Province.
As the camp collapsed under enemy attack, a UH-1H helicopter from the 52nd Aviation Battalion flew into the fire to pull trapped Americans and others to safety.
Aboard that aircraft was Warrant Officer Wade L. Ellen of Norfolk, Virginia, the co-pilot of helicopter tail number 69-15715.
The base was under assault. Tanks had already fired into positions inside the compound. Advisors were escaping under pressure. Yet the crew still came in.
They loaded survivors and lifted off.
Only moments later, the helicopter was apparently hit by enemy fire.
It crashed and burned on a small island in the Dak Poko River, just 500 meters from the runway. Five survived the crash. WO Wade L. Ellen did not 🕊️
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#Military
#RIP🕊️
An Afghan woman was forced to marry the man who raped her:
Because the rapist was already married, the victim was sent to prison for adultery, where she gave birth. For the sake of her newborn daughter, she had to agree to become his second wife.
Sick culture and mentality!
US Special Forces soldier arrested for betting $33k on Maduro’s capture using classified intel — faces prison.
Congress members get private briefings, trade stocks, and walk free.
Same game, different rules.
One justice system for soldiers, another for the elite.
When a police officer in Texas used the N word in a vid, a mob of black people called for her firing.
When a black man said he wants a White family dead, a mob of black people made him AG of VA.
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865.
Please cite for me any periods of years between 1865 and 2026 when the KKK was NOT being funded by Democrats.
I'll stand by.
People are more upset that they can no longer buy junk food on food stamps then they are upset about the fact that they are on fking food stamps.
And, that, my friends, is what’s wrong with America.
How come the people of the United States are audited, fined and punished for fraud, but our crooked government isn't audited, fined and punished for fraud?
300M US citizens would like an answer.
He had one second… and he gave it to someone else.
On March 5, 1969, in Vietnam, a 12-man reconnaissance team was suddenly engulfed in heavy fire—mortars, machine guns, grenades tearing through their position.
Robert H. Jenkins Jr. was just 20.
Amid the chaos, he and another Marine fought from a small two-man position, holding the line as the enemy closed in.
Then a grenade landed between them.
No time to think.
No time to run.
He saw it… and chose.
In a single motion, Jenkins pulled his fellow Marine down and threw himself over him.
The blast hit him directly.
His teammate lived.
Jenkins didn’t.
For that moment, he was awarded the Medal of Honor—presented to his family in 1970.
But what stays isn’t the medal.
It’s this:
He was 20.
One second.
One decision.
One life for another.
Most people will never know his name.
But someone lived… because he made that choice.