Today is #October7 so I will use this day to remember all the Israelis who were brutally killed by the heinous terrorists from Hamas. We will save the conversation on any other topic for another day. #WeRememberThem
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@amblerrick.bsky.socialToday is #October7 so I will use this day to remember all the Israelis who were brutally killed by the heinous terrorists from Hamas. We will save the conversation on any other topic for another day. #WeRememberThem
@kevinault.bsky.socialSanta Barbara honored the remarkable life of Arthur Max Petersen, who died recently at 102. He was was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne and participated in most of the major European battles of #WW2 - starting with D Day.
@kevinault.bsky.socialFourteen members of the US Colored Troops received the Medal of Honor for their heroics #OTD in 1864.
By the end of the Battle of New Market Heights, over 50 percent of the Black division had been killed, captured, or wounded.
@kevinault.bsky.socialThe Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is the largest American military cemetery in Europe. The cemetery has 14,246 graves, including 9 dead who were awarded the Medal of Honor.
#LestWeForget + #WeRememberThem. www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-m...
@kevinault.bsky.socialU.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Fred H. Boyer was buried today, he died aboard the USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941.
This one hits a bit closer to home - he likely went to school with the Aults before joining the Navy.
@kevinault.bsky.social@kevinault.bsky.social@kevinault.bsky.socialMajor Everett Parker Pope of the US Marines was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism #OTD in 1944. He led an assault against a fortified Japanese position - Hill 100 - on Peleliu.
@kevinault.bsky.socialPicture taken #OTD in 1944 - Dutch resistance fighters meeting with American paratroopers from the 101st Airborne during 'Operation Market Garden."
@kevinault.bsky.socialUS Army Lt. Emily Perez was killed in action #OTD 20 years ago. She was deployed in Iraq and died when her Humvee hit an IED. She was a 2005 graduate of United States Military Academy at West Point. She was a freshman on September 11, 2001.
@kevinault.bsky.socialSteward's Mate Charles Jackson French was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroics #OTD in 1942
The Associated Press reported that the “powerful Negro mess attendant who swam six hours...towing to safety a raft load of wounded seamen.”
@kevinault.bsky.socialUS Army Lt. Aaron Fisher was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for the his bravery #OTD in 1918. Fisher and fellow soldiers repelled a German trench raid, despite being outnumbered.
