One Final Honor for Iwo Jima Hero

Woody Williams, 98, will lie in honor at the US Capitol 

By Newser Editors and Wire Service Jun 29, 2022 

Update: At a memorial Sunday in Charleston, West Virginia, Sen. Joe Manchin said Hershel W. "Woody" Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, would lie in state at the US Capitol. But Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer announced he would actually lie in honor. The distinction, per to the Architect of the Capitol, is that government officials and military officers lie in state while private citizens lie in honor, reports the AP. A date and other details will be forthcoming. Our original story from Wednesday, which details Williams' heroics, follows. 

 Woody Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, whose heroics under fire over several crucial hours at the Battle of Iwo Jima made him a legend in his native West Virginia, died Wednesday at age 98 at the Veterans Affairs medical center bearing his name in Huntington, the AP reports. "Today, America lost not just a valiant Marine and a Medal of Honor recipient, but an important link to our Nation's fight against tyranny in the Second World War,"

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions. Later that year, at age 22, Williams received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for military valor, from President Harry Truman at the White House. "For me, receiving the Medal of Honor was actually the lifesaver because it forced me to talk about the experiences that I had, which was a therapy that I didn't even know I was doing," Williams said in 2018. Iwo Jima was where Marines planted the American flag on Mount Suribachi, a moment captured in one of the most iconic war photographs in history. Williams said he saw the flag from a distance after it went up as troops around him celebrated............To Read More....

 

Let Me Tell You About Captain Ben Saloman

By Rich Kozlovich

As we watch the corruption of the American military by what can only be viewed as incompetent or ever treasonous Woke leadership, and their disgraceful disregard for their duty, the lives of Americans and America's soldiers, all of which can only be described as a total failure to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, this story resonates!

Yesterday Robert Lucas posted this article:  Captain Ben Salomon’s delayed Medal of Honor about the Battle of Saipan, and the heroics of the soldiers who fought and died there, including one Captain Ben Salomon, who posthumously received a much deserved Medal of Honor in 2002.

During WWII the Japanese placed no value on the Geneva Convention, human lives, and consistently killed wounded enemy troops and prisoners of war.  During the allied invasion of Saipan the Japanese mounted a massive counter attack, penetrating allied perimeters and driving allied forces back causing large numbers of wounded, who were crawling back for aid, with enemy soldiers right behind them, bayoneting the wounded near the aid station, which was just a tent. 

Captain Salomon saw one bayoneting a wounded soldier and killed him, he then went on to club two more, bayoneted a total of three, shot one, and head butted another who was shot by a wounded American.  After ordering the wounded to get to the regimental aid station "he grabbed a rifle from one of the wounded American soldiers and made his way to a machine gun to cover their escape. Four enemy soldiers were killed before he could get to a machine gun in order to buy time for the wounded to evacuate."

No one saw him for the next 15 hours until all that territory was retaken and what they found was  Captain Salomon's body "laying on the machine gun" with "98 dead enemy soldiers piled in front of his position".  His body had "76 bayonet and bullet wounds.......[and] a blood trail showed where he had repositioned the gun multiple times, almost certainly while fatally wounded, to continue covering the retreat.”  "Seven Medals of Honor were given in time for the heroism that took place during the Battle of Saipan. All were given posthumously.

Why did it take so long for this very real hero to get his Medal of Honor?  It wasn't because he was Jewish.  There was a "technical" problem because he was wearing a Red Cross.  

 You see, Captain Saloman was a dentist.