Mark Hersh a WW2 Veteran recently turned 100 years old!
Hersh was drafted into the U.S. Army at 18 years old. He remembers fighting across Europe until Germany surrendered in May 1945. After returning home Hersh met his wife Greta. They were married for 71 years.
"He's definitely proud to be an American," David his son said. "He's proud to have served in the military. We're proud to have him in our family."
Thank you for your service and happy late birthday Hero!
Imagine needing an ID to shop at a taxpayer-funded grocery storeโฆ but somehow not to vote. ๐ฅดโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
This is when I knew it was all full of shit. Hundreds of these dancing nurses while we all were supposedly in a medical crisis. All over the country. Things were so bad but these nurses all had the time to make these videos while no one could have anything done at any hospitals unless you were to die of Covid during the early use of those lung machines. It was all about getting Trump out of office. Every bit of it. Caused all of this panic and death around the world because they didn't want Trump re-elected.
On May 2, 1968, a 12-man Special Forces reconnaissance team was inserted into dense jungle west of Loc Ninh, Vietnam, and ran into a North Vietnamese battalion estimated at around a thousand soldiers.
3 helicopters tried to pull them out and were driven off by heavy ground fire.
Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, a Green Beret with Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group, was at the forward operating base monitoring the radio. He boarded one of the returning aircraft carrying a medical bag and a kn*fe.
He jumped from the hovering helicopter and ran roughly 75 meters through g*nfire to reach the team, injured in the leg, face, and head before he got there.
Over the next 6 hours he dragged w*unded men to the extraction aircraft, directed air strikes, recovered classified documents from the body of the d*ad team leader, and fought hand to hand after being bayoneted.
He refused to be pulled aboard until the survivors and the d*ad were loaded first.
Benavidez came off that field with a broken jaw and 37 b*llet, shrapnel, and bayonet w*unds. At the base he was taken for d*ad and placed in a body bag. Unable to speak, he spat at the doctor who was closing it.
His actions saved at least 8 men. He was initially given the Distinguished Service Cross, and the award was upgraded only after a surviving radioman read about his case in a newspaper and came forward with an eyewitness account.
On February 24, 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented him with the Medal of Honor.
Roy Benavidez d*ed in 1998 at the age of 63.
@SenatorDurbin Senator Durbin you have always been an embarrassing congressperson. Maybe you can complain about high gas prices again. You cannot retire soon enough. It should have been 30 years ago.