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- From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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Posted by maddafinga
on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:27 AM
You should read the book if you get a chance, it's really really a great book and the Rodger Young plays an important part.
In real life, Rodger Young was a Congressional Medal of Honor winner on New Georgia. His squad got pinned down by a Japanese machine gun and were all going to die as they had very little cover. Rodger attacked it directly and eliminated the nest with a grenade, despite taking point blank fire the whole way. His left arm and rifle and most of the left side of his body were badly shot up and useless, but he continued to advance on the position. He actually threw the grenade as he was shot directly in the face from 15 feet away. He saved the lives of everyone else there that day. They wrote a song about it. Truly a hero.
Madda
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. -- Leonardo Da Vinci
Tact is for those who lack the wit for sarcasm.--maddafinga
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