Someone You Should Know: Medal of Honor receipient Desmond Doss
Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce is a veteran of the Vietnam war and spent 28 years in the U.S. Army. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
Tonight Bruce told us the emotional story of Desmond Doss, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary courage in World War II despite being a pacifist who refused to carry a weapon.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce McQuain from QandO does an incredible job with the series every week.
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November 9, 2008 10:51 pm
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A tip of the hat to Corporal Desmond Doss and to his memory:
THE END OF THE WAR TO END ALL WARS AND THE BEGINNING OF A COMMEMORATION
It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the ”War to End All Wars,” “the Great War,” ended in 1918 with the declaration of an armistice.
The fighting was over between the Allies and Germany, the bloodletting was finished, even though the politicians took another seven months to declare an official end to what would become known as World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
Ironically, the punitive and shortsighted nature of that treaty would lead to a far worse conflict a mere nineteen years later. The total of American dead and wounded in the Great War was 320,000, the total in the next war was in excess of one million.
That Great War didn’t even come close to being the war to end all wars and it was great only in the sense that it was huge, something never witnessed before by mankind, a virtual world-wide war.
In recognition of the hour, day, and month when it effectively came to a conclusion, President Woodrow Wilson, who was complicit in the treaty which would lead to World War II, declared November 11th to be celebrated as Armistice Day, a national holiday.
That “holiday” name was subsequently changed to Veterans Day by President Eisenhower in 1954 in order to honor those who served our country in all of our wars, which made far more sense than commemorating the ending of a war which was mishandled so poorly that it bred a worse war.
I dutifully got my red, paper poppy on Saturday, an artificial, little flower…
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)