Outstanding.

The account in the vid pales.

He sustained serious injuries from a land mine in Vietnam before undergoing SOG training at Ft. Bragg with the spinal injury. Almost unbelievable as far as that goes.

I just reread the MOH Citation for the first time in many years. (http://www.valorremembered.org/RPB_MOHCitation.htm)

I see his name all the time here. It good to be reminded of why.

Wow, just imagine all the guys out there who only saved a few people's lives in a less dramatic fashion and got their benefits cut.

Upvote for spitting in the doctor's face face because it was "all he could do".

It's a shame that this sort of heroism is needed, in such wasteful wars.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

It's a shame that this sort of heroism is needed, in such wasteful wars.


a shame? i bet that couch yer sittin on is comfortable. a shame? spoken like a true keyboard patriot. a shame? say what you will about the vietnam conflict, but acts carried out by men like MSG Benavidez show what embodies the human spirit: courage, vigilance, tenacity, intestinal fortitude, selfless service, and integrity in the face of crippling fear and certain death.

what's really shameful is that you would hold an act of personal sacrifice such as this in contempt so that you may add relevance to your political commentary

Smooman, I should have expected a knee jerk reaction from you. I don't hold the act in contempt. I hold the fact that so many people were put in that position in the first place, in contempt.

It's a shame that this sort of heroism is needed, in such wasteful wars. Perhaps I could have phrased it better. It's a shame that this sort of heroism is wasted on shameful wars.

What's even more shameful is that you misunderstood my comment, and charged into a litany of cliched insults without fully understanding what I wrote.

The Idea that we should separate acts of courage from the sleazy politics behind a war is completely abject to me. If anything these acts of courage should be used as a reason to not have war.