Yea I remember reading my metal of honor book he was one of my favorite stories. Then the other story I really liked was the guy I forget his name that when he ran out of ammo he manually primed and lobbed mortars to hold off the Germans and was a killing machine.
Some of the metal of honor winners stories are truly touching. Think this one was in Vietnam but the airman who was dropping a flare from the plane had a bump or something and he grabbed it and put it out of the plane before it would have destroyed the plane. I think it was something like 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. Needless to stay I'm sure he suffered tremendously. "When I came back from Korea, I had no money, no skills. Sure, I was good with a bayonet, but you can't put that on a resume - it puts people off!" Frank Barone, "Everybody Loves Raymond" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Churvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: Re: A good american > > | >| So I take it that you hold in contempt those who have a sincere, > religious > > | >| or otherwise, conviction that serving in the military is wrong. > > Alvin York was a consciencious objector on religious grounds and petitioned > the government to not be drafted on that basis. He was turned down. > > Later during basic training here in Georgia, he refused to shoot at targets > shaped like humans, and instead qualified using plain round targets. "Sir, > I am doing wrong. Practicing to kill people is against my religion" was his > reason. His superiors wondered how someone with such uncanny marksmanship > at 500 yards could possibly be a consciencious objector. They had a talk > with him about the principles of this country of ours and its history, and > they gave him some time to think it all over. > > Alvin came back to his superiors saying that he was more against war than > ever, but that he would serve and do what was necessary of a soldier. He > was send to the Argonne Forest, right to the German front line. > > For those of you not familiar with the outcome, Alvin York killed 25 > Germans, knocked out 35 machine guns, and captured 132 prisoners almost > single-handed. He killed over and over again with great precision and > strategic military thinking so that he could kill as many as possible in > just the right places and make it seem that the division was under attack by > another division. He was awarded, among other things, the Congressional > Medal of Honor for his actions. > > There is a proper way to conscienciously object to war, and Alvin C. York > showed us all exactly how to do it. You object on moral grounds as long and > as hard as possible, but when push comes to shove -- and not just to shove > against you personally -- you fight with everything you've got. And you do > it for something greater than yourself. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > Member of Team Macromedia > > Advanced Intensive ColdFusion MX Training > ColdFusion MX Master Class: > July 14 - 18, 2003 > http://www.ColdFusionTraining.com > > Download CommerceBlocks V2.1 and LoRCAT from > http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com > > The ColdFusion MX Bible is in bookstores now! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
