Inspirations

Howard1955 · Jan 13, 2017

Sometimes we need to see a story that inspires us. With that in mind, here is John J. Kelly.

Please share some others, I need to see some good.

John Joseph Kelly
Date of birth: June 24, 1898
Date of death: November 20, 1957
Burial location: Des Plaines, Illinois
Place of Birth: Illinois, Chicago
Home of record: Chicago Illinois

Received 2 Medal of Honor awards: One from the Army, and one from the Navy.

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private John Joseph Kelly (MCSN: 87666), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 78th Company, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action at Blanc Mont Ridge, France, 3 October 1918.

Private Kelly ran through our own barrage 100 yards in advance of the front line and attacked an enemy machinegun nest, killing the gunner with a grenade, shooting another member of the crew with his pistol, and returning through the barrage with eight prisoners.

Valor awards for John Joseph Kelly

Andy54Hawken · Jan 14, 2017

For those who would like to read more of the Marines in WWI , I would suggest:
Fix Bayonets by John W. Thomason Jr.
Captain USMC
His Time In Hell by Warren R. Jackson.

I learned of the Marines in WWI , while painting a mural of the history of the 9th Infantry Regiment when I was in the Army.
The 9th at the time of WWI was in the 2nd Infantry Division US Army and the Marine Regiments 5th and 6th were attached to the 2nd ID.
The 2 ID was a warring unit and the Marines attached did see some heavy fighting.
Andy

Howard1955 · Jan 16, 2017

Here's another hero.

November 15, 2016

Passerby shoots, kills motorist assaulting deputy after traffic stop

clearconscience · Jan 16, 2017

This bad MFer.

Quadruple amputee Travis Mills stuns Mike Rowe: 'I'm not a victim' - CNN.com

Or this freakin warrior.

Triple amputee veteran completes grueling 10.5 mile endurance race called The Beast over five-hours to honor fallen U.S. soldiers | Daily Mail Online

Howard1955 · Jan 31, 2017

Howard1955 · Apr 27, 2021

Copied from Facebook:

You're a 19 year old kid.

You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.

Its November 14, 1965 . LZ X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho.

May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I know he is sitting with our Lord telling each other stories!

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman.

Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008

Alexx1401 · Apr 27, 2021

Howard1955 said:
Copied from Facebook:

You're a 19 year old kid.

You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.

Its November 14, 1965 . LZ X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.

You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.

He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.

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Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!

Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho.

May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I know he is sitting with our Lord telling each other stories!

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman.

Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008

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I hope he is resting in the peace he deserves. What a man he must have been. Thanks for sharing that.