Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
09-02-2020, 06:53 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wwii-medal-honor-winner-fighting-081603737.html
Celebrity
A WWII Medal of Honor Winner on Fighting Fascism and Neo-Nazis
Nick Schager
The Daily BeastSeptember 2, 2020, 3:16 AM CDT
John A. Bone/AP
John A. Bone/AP
On February 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hershel “Woody” Williams became a bona fide American hero. Having landed two days earlier on the Japanese island, Williams was ordered by his commander to join a squadron tasked with clearing out a series of pillboxes (concrete enemy bunkers). On their way to the first of these outposts, all of Williams’ comrades were killed, but the young Marine persevered, eliminating everyone inside the pillbox with his trusty flamethrower. Over the next four hours, he refueled his weapon five more times in order to singlehandedly take out the area’s remaining collection of pillboxes. When he was done, he witnessed his fellow soldiers raise the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi, and following five more weeks of fighting—sometimes injured, thereby earning him the Purple Heart—he returned home and, on October 5, 1945, was awarded by President Harry Truman with the Medal of Honor for his valiant service.
Williams’ legacy is of immense courage under fire, and his story is one of many featured in filmmaker Erik Nelson’s Apocalypse ’45 (on VOD now), a stirring documentary that brings WWII’s Pacific theater to vivid life via amazingly restored color footage from the battlefield, all of it set to narration from the vets who experienced it first-hand. A companion piece to Nelson’s The Cold Blue, it’s a gorgeous and harrowing non-fiction account, rife with unbelievable imagery—including dogfight material shot from the perspective of planes’ gun turrets—and stirring commentary about combat camaraderie, chaos, and terror. At the same time, it’s also a portrait of an era in which fighting fascism, and upholding democracy, were goals that united us all—and, as such, defined who we were as individuals, and Americans. That makes it both a vital historical record and an all-too-timely film.
“With Apocalypse ’45, that was just the answer that everyone gave—they talked about the divisiveness, and their bemusement about what had happened to the America they had fought and died for,” says director Erik Nelson. “They went there on their own.”
It is because America had brave men like this that most of us are here today enjoying the remaining freedoms we have.
Freedoms that the dem party and its allies- Antifa, BLM, New Black Panther Party,Mainstream media and a cadre of other worthless assholes all want to destroy...
That sad and tragic reality gives call for us to not only vote to limit these scum but to actually speak out boldly and with courage against them and alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllll that they stand for.
Our usual silence they depend on. Our hesitation to make a scene or engage in fighting they depend on...
Well no more.. Speak out and be ready to fight if need arises my friend.
Consider what the hero in the article cited above endured-- what he faced and how he persevered over a much larger enemy force.
As he alone did his duty with faith, courage and --true- fighting spirit.--Tyr.
Celebrity
A WWII Medal of Honor Winner on Fighting Fascism and Neo-Nazis
Nick Schager
The Daily BeastSeptember 2, 2020, 3:16 AM CDT
John A. Bone/AP
John A. Bone/AP
On February 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hershel “Woody” Williams became a bona fide American hero. Having landed two days earlier on the Japanese island, Williams was ordered by his commander to join a squadron tasked with clearing out a series of pillboxes (concrete enemy bunkers). On their way to the first of these outposts, all of Williams’ comrades were killed, but the young Marine persevered, eliminating everyone inside the pillbox with his trusty flamethrower. Over the next four hours, he refueled his weapon five more times in order to singlehandedly take out the area’s remaining collection of pillboxes. When he was done, he witnessed his fellow soldiers raise the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi, and following five more weeks of fighting—sometimes injured, thereby earning him the Purple Heart—he returned home and, on October 5, 1945, was awarded by President Harry Truman with the Medal of Honor for his valiant service.
Williams’ legacy is of immense courage under fire, and his story is one of many featured in filmmaker Erik Nelson’s Apocalypse ’45 (on VOD now), a stirring documentary that brings WWII’s Pacific theater to vivid life via amazingly restored color footage from the battlefield, all of it set to narration from the vets who experienced it first-hand. A companion piece to Nelson’s The Cold Blue, it’s a gorgeous and harrowing non-fiction account, rife with unbelievable imagery—including dogfight material shot from the perspective of planes’ gun turrets—and stirring commentary about combat camaraderie, chaos, and terror. At the same time, it’s also a portrait of an era in which fighting fascism, and upholding democracy, were goals that united us all—and, as such, defined who we were as individuals, and Americans. That makes it both a vital historical record and an all-too-timely film.
“With Apocalypse ’45, that was just the answer that everyone gave—they talked about the divisiveness, and their bemusement about what had happened to the America they had fought and died for,” says director Erik Nelson. “They went there on their own.”
It is because America had brave men like this that most of us are here today enjoying the remaining freedoms we have.
Freedoms that the dem party and its allies- Antifa, BLM, New Black Panther Party,Mainstream media and a cadre of other worthless assholes all want to destroy...
That sad and tragic reality gives call for us to not only vote to limit these scum but to actually speak out boldly and with courage against them and alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllll that they stand for.
Our usual silence they depend on. Our hesitation to make a scene or engage in fighting they depend on...
Well no more.. Speak out and be ready to fight if need arises my friend.
Consider what the hero in the article cited above endured-- what he faced and how he persevered over a much larger enemy force.
As he alone did his duty with faith, courage and --true- fighting spirit.--Tyr.