Vietnam War Hero who Killed Sniper and Silenced Machine Gun to Save Wounded Buddies Dies at 74
Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Col. Charles Hagemeister, retired, shows his medal to Currahees with 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, working the night shift during the Warfighter Exercise, Sept. 17, 2012, at Fort Campbell, Ky. (Todd A. Christopherson/U.S. Army)
20 May 2021
An Army medic who received the Medal of Honor for picking up a fallen soldier s rifle and using it to protect his wounded comrades during the Vietnam War has died, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
Charles Hagemeister, 74, died Wednesday in Leavenworth, Kan., the society announced that day. It did not state a cause of death.
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by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, … and all those who contributed to making Hacksaw Ridge
Update 02-21-17 8:49 pm – We had a wonderful two hours with both Terry Barlett and Woody Williams and will be posting the show links and a follow up article in a day or so…JD
Mel spent ten long years getting this movie made.
Tuesday night, February 21, from 6 to 8pm EST, we have a double-header Mike Harris – Jim Dean VT Radio special, hosting the BluRay-DVD release of Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, which has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
This is the incredible story of Desmond Doss.
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Saying farewell to the Greatest Generation
The movement to hold the first state funeral for someone who was not a president or a general is gaining traction, with the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation signing on.
By Kevin Cullen Globe Columnist,Updated April 15, 2021, 5:26 p.m.
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In March 2020, Medal of Honor recipient Hershel Woody Williams attended the commissioning of the USS Hershel Woody Williams in Norfolk, Va.KENNY KEMP/Associated Press
Last week, on the day that East Bridgewater honored Marine veteran Jim Ingargiola, who beat back COVID-19 with the same tenacity he used to beat back the Imperial Japanese Army some 75 years ago, people in Chattanooga, Tenn., found out that Army veteran Charles Coolidge, a Medal of Honor recipient, had died.
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