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Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:35 pm to Kafka
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Perhaps some would consider Pfc. David Winder an unlikely hero? As the son of a pastor, he was a pacifist and one of only a handful of men to receive the Medal of Honor despite personal reservations about war.
Indeed, Winder nearly fled to Canada to avoid the draft. In the end, though, “he figured that wasn’t the right thing to do,” as his little brother later described.
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Instead, Winder would serve his country in his own way. By November 1969, he was in Vietnam, serving as a senior medical aidman.
“He was about helping people,” his brother concluded. “He didn’t even carry a gun in Vietnam.”
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Pfc. Winder’s heroism came after he’d been in Vietnam for several months. On May 13, 1970, his unit became pinned down by intense fire. The enemy was well-entrenched and raking our soldiers with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire.
Several of our men went down, but Winder didn’t hesitate.
Remember: He was unarmed. Nevertheless, he began crawling and working his way across 100 meters of open terrain, even as bullets fell all around him. One of the bullets soon hit the young medic, but Winder still managed to find one of our wounded soldiers to help.
He administered medical aid and moved on, despite his own wounds. He needed to help as many men as he could.
Winder nearly made it to a second casualty, but when he was within 10 meters of this second soldier, he was hit again. This wound was mortal.
“I don’t think you’d expect anybody to do what he did—or very few people, anyhow, to be so selfless,” Winder’s little brother later said. On the other hand, maybe Winder’s family wasn’t so surprised, either? “If you knew him it really wasn’t out of character for him to do that,” the younger Winder said. “He was just a great brother.”
Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:39 pm to Kafka
I invested heavily in this franchise
Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:47 pm to Kafka
The only beer for those long drives
Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:52 pm to Duane Dibbley
Wow! Shasta brings back memories of the 70s, a young child at a park with my family and another, dads grilling and drinking beer and us grabbing these from the ice chest in between playing!! I had all but forgot about this, I loved the cherry flavor most :)
Posted on 5/14/24 at 5:11 am to chinhoyang
How did they have a kid if they sleep in different beds?
Posted on 5/14/24 at 6:15 am to chinese58
Holy shite Elon Musk hasn’t aged a day.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:03 am to Espritdescorps
Valerie Leon promoting Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb, 1971
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:07 am to mauser
The stage of The Warehouse in New Orleans, 1989
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:10 am to Espritdescorps
quote:Your face doesn’t change much from one incarnation to the next.
Holy shite Elon Musk hasn’t aged a day.
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