Medal of honor

Memo to the Obama Regime:

Yes, we are a nation of immigrants.

But the immigrants who enrich our country arrive with hope for a better future.

Not with ISIS flags on their cellphones.

I. George T. “Joe” Sakato

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Via Weekly Standard:

On December 2, George T. “Joe” Sakato died at the age of 94. Enlisting in the Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sakato was assigned to the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a fighting force consisting of second-generation Japanese Americans that saw heavy action in Europe. The 442nd became the most highly decorated unit in the war thanks to soldiers like Joe Sakato.

In 1944, deep in the Vosges Mountains of France, Sakato and his platoon were tasked with finding the 1st Battalion/141st Infantry, what became known as the Lost Battalion. In the midst of a German counterattack, Sakato remembers a fellow soldier making the mistake of standing up and getting shot. He died in Sakato’s arms.

At which point Sakato got out of his foxhole and basically turned into Rambo. “I just charged up that hill thinking, ‘I’m going to get the SOB who shot him or die trying,’ ” he -recounted years later. By his own estimate, he took down “two or three guys.” In fact, he killed 12 and received the Congressional Medal of Honor (very belatedly) in 2000.

…Sakato, upon receiving his medal, said, “I’m no hero, but I wear it for the guys that didn’t come back.”

II. Tibor Rubin

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Via Legal Insurrection: (H/T to TAM naga5 for posting in TamWire)

….Tibor Rubin was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush in 2005. That would have been remarkable in itself, since the award is so rarely given.

But the award was not for service in Iraq. It was for service in the Korean War. Stars and Stripes reported at the time:

Rubin…was born in Hungary and sent to the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, as a boy. His parents and a sister were killed during their imprisonment, but Rubin survived for 14 months and was freed when American soldiers stormed the camp.

He swore to pay back the country for that freedom, and eventually emigrated to America and joined the Army. He was sent to North Korea in 1950 with the 8th Cavalry Regiment and distinguished himself for bravery in battle during several firefights around Pusan….

Rubin’s Medal of Honor Citation reads….

Corporal Tibor Rubin distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism during the period from July 23, 1950, to April 20, 1953, while serving as a rifleman with Company I, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division in the Republic of Korea.

While his unit was retreating to the Pusan Perimeter, Corporal Rubin was assigned to stay behind to keep open the vital Taegu-Pusan Road link used by his withdrawing unit. During the ensuing battle, overwhelming numbers of North Korean troops assaulted a hill defended solely by Corporal Rubin. He inflicted a staggering number of casualties on the attacking force during his personal 24-hour battle, single-handedly slowing the enemy advance and allowing the 8th Cavalry Regiment to complete its withdrawal successfully.

Following the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, the 8 th Cavalry Regiment proceeded northward and advanced into North Korea. During the advance, he helped capture several hundred North Korean soldiers. On October 30, 1950, Chinese forces attacked his unit at Unsan, North Korea, during a massive nighttime assault.

That night and throughout the next day, he manned a .30 caliber machine gun at the south end of the unit’s line after three previous gunners became casualties. He continued to man his machine gun until his ammunition was exhausted. His determined stand slowed the pace of the enemy advance in his sector, permitting the remnants of his unit to retreat southward. As the battle raged, Corporal Rubin was severely wounded and captured by the Chinese.

Choosing to remain in the prison camp despite offers from the Chinese to return him to his native Hungary, Corporal Rubin disregarded his own personal safety and immediately began sneaking out of the camp at night in search of food for his comrades. Breaking into enemy food storehouses and gardens, he risked certain torture or death if caught. Corporal Rubin provided not only food to the starving Soldiers, but also desperately needed medical care and moral support for the sick and wounded of the POW camp….

In writing of his death, the NY Times noted:

Chillingly, Corporal Rubin had an enemy on his own side. Numerous reports detail affidavits submitted by his fellow soldiers who described their sergeant as a virulent anti-Semite who repeatedly assigned him the most dangerous missions, including one in which he single-handedly held off a wave of North Korean soldiers for 24 hours, securing for his own troops a safe route of retreat.

The affidavits also suggested that though Corporal Rubin was recommended more than once for the Medal of Honor, the same sergeant, Artice V. Watson, deliberately ignored the orders from his own superiors to prepare the appropriate paperwork….

But he wasn’t bitter, as he explained in the Stars and Stripes 2005 article:

“I’m not angry with the Chinese, I’m not angry with the North Koreans, I’m not even angry with the Germans,” he said. “I figure the Lord is going to take care of them. So how could I be angry at this country, which did so much for me?”

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  1. Christiangaypariah says:

    Terrific. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our news media patriotically did so! I loved reading their stories. May they rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon them.

  2. sweetexp says:

    YEA!!! I love it Shifra and love you for remembering the Medal for/of all who gave the ultimate patriotic sacrifice. I begin each day on patrol reviewing all Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients from each era. I am on the Vietnam era this week in between mini breaks at work. I enjoy all the branches of our U.S. military actually 😉 just had to start with my beloved Corps (not pronounced the way Obummer pronounced our Navy Corpsmen).

  3. Dave says:

    These men are the finest most decent men America could possibly have the honor of acknowledging with its highest award. I thank God for these brave and selfless men.

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