I likewise track the Covid stats and worry for the nation. It is like the general populace is wearing horse blinders so as not to see what is happening around them.
To be honest, Mic, it wasn't you I was looking to slam you with this truth telling. And I am glad you took it in with a sense of humor. AS I eluded to before it would interesting to sit down across from you in coffee and trade stories. IN meantime I guess we continue trading barbed comments.
You speak of Urban dangers here, and I grant you there are many. But survival awareness should exist everywhere. IF you are in Mountains it is good idea to stand a foot or so back from a cliff edge. IF you are in the deep woods it is bad idea to walk between a mother bear and her cubs.
What you appear to be describing is called Street Smarts here in the US. It is deliberate state of caution one maintains during the course of everyday life. Some because their surroundings need to be cautious than others. IT ranges from simple things like not stepping out in rushing traffic to looking our for kids when you rush down a side street. Others will call this common sense, but it goes beyond that in that it is not something one inherits, but rather is learned through experience.
germanspitz - your comments and quires are valid. OF course given most here consider anything said that is NOT clearly pro-Donald is a lie, you will likely get chastised by the Donald team.
The suggestions were made by Ty Seidule is a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and professor emeritus of history at West Point. - Not the Washington Post or myself.
During fighting in Iraq in 2003, Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith protected an aid station from attack. When fellow soldiers found Smith’s body, there were 13 bullets lodged in his protective vest. A bullet to the neck finally killed him, but his troops survived. Smith received the Medal of Honor posthumously.
Home of the XVIII Airborne Corps and the 82nd Airborne Division, this fort should honor Matthew Ridgway, who commanded both units during World War II. During the Korean War, Ridgway took command of the Eighth Army, which was reeling from Chinese assaults. In just two weeks, he had the Army back on the attack, defeating the enemy in battle after battle.
Like many women of that era, Margaret Corbin followed her husband into battle during the American Revolution. At Fort Washington, John Corbin manned an artillery piece protecting the evacuation of George Washington’s Continental Army from Manhattan in 1776. When an enemy round killed John, Margaret Corbin took over the gun and continued to fire until stopped by wounds in her arm, chest and jaw. She was captured, but Washington made his escape. Corbin was the first woman to receive a military pension from Congress.
Vernon Baker tried to enlist in 1941, but a recruiter rejected him because he was African American. After he was later allowed to join the Army, 1st Lt. Baker took command of a platoon in the segregated 92nd Infantry Division. While leading an assault in Italy, he single-handedly took out five German positions. Although three-quarters of his platoon died in the fighting, Baker volunteered the next day to lead the battalion’s advance through a minefield. For his heroism, Baker received the Medal of Honor. He served the United States for more than a quarter-century, including in combat in Korea.
This post is home to Army aviation. Michael Novosel served in World War II as a B-29 pilot, flew again in the Korean War and then gave up his Air Force commission to serve as an Army warrant officer in Vietnam. In 1969, Novosel received the Medal of Honor for conducting 15 “extremely hazardous” aeromedical evacuations under enemy fire, saving 29 soldiers.
In every war, the United States has relied on immigrants to fight for our country. Born in Hungary, Tibor “Ted” Rubin survived the Mauthausen concentration camp before U.S. troops liberated him. After emigrating, he joined the Army. During the Korean War, Rubin received the Medal of Honor for single-handedly defending a hilltop for 24 hours against waves of enemy attacks. Seriously wounded, Rubin was captured and spent 30 months in a prisoner-of-war camp, where he also distinguished himself by stealing food from guards for his fellow prisoners.
After a terrible wound during his first tour of Vietnam, Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez volunteered to return in 1968 with his Special Forces unit. During “six hours in hell,” he saved the lives of eight fellow soldiers, for which he later received the Medal of Honor. At one point an enemy soldier stabbed Benavidez with a bayonet. Although grievously injured, Benavidez pulled the knife from his body, killed the man and continued his mission.
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