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FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Eddie Rickenbacker ~ 20 September 2021
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FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Barney F. Hajiro ~ 19 July 2021
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Barney F. Hajiro (September 16, 1916 - January 21, 2011) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.
Hajiro was born in Hawaii, the eldest of nine children born to Japanese immigrant parents who had moved from Hiroshima to Maui during World War I. Two of his siblings died in infancy. The family was poor, and Hajiro left school to work, first in the sugarcane fields of Maui and later as a stevedore in Honolulu. Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and performed menial labor as part of an engineering battalion.
FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Carlos Lozada ~ 12 July 2021
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Carlos James Lozada (September 6, 1946 - November 20, 1967), was a Private First Class in the United States Army and was killed in action in Vietnam. He was one of five Puerto Ricans who were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions.
The United States at that time was involved in the Vietnam War and on June 11, 1967, Lozada was sent to Vietnam and assigned to Co. A, 2nd Battalion, 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade.
On November 20, 1967, at Dak To in the Republic of Vietnam, PFC Lozada spotted a North Vietnamese Army company rapidly approaching his outpost. He alerted his comrades and opened fire with a machine gun, killing at least twenty of the enemy soldiers and disrupting their initial attack. He realized that if he abandoned his position there would be nothi
FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Nathan G Gordon ~ 12 April 2021
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FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez ~ 15 March 2021
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As the medevac chopper landed the wounded were examined one by one. Staff Sergeant Benavidez could only hear what was going on around him. He had over thirty seven puncture wounds. His intestines were exposed. He could not see as his eyes were caked in blood and unable to open. Neither could he speak, his jaw broken, clubbed by a North Vietnamese rifle. But he knew what was happening, and it was the scariest moment of his life, even more so than the earlier events of the day. He lay in a body bag, bathed in his own blood. Jerry Cottingham, a friend screamed That s Benavidez. Get a doc . When the doctor arrived he placed his hand on Roy s chest to feel for a heartbeat. He pronounced him dead. The physician shook his head.
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