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South Dakota Air Nat'l Guard honors Joe Foss
Story here. I knew Foss when he was an NRA director and president, prior to his death in 2003. He earned the Medal of Honor ... on Guadalcanal, where as one writer said, uncommon courage was a common virtue, and he stood out even there. Here's an understated summary of his actions, and here's a much more colorful one at Badass of the Week.
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I remember reading about that in the news shortly after it happened and maybe I'm the one or one the few who reads about the history of this country. Too many things and too much of history is being tossed out or being changed to suit a few people's narrow minded views of the this country and it's history for their narrow minded goals
..." on Guadalcanal, where as one writer said, uncommon courage was a common virtue, ...." True enough but the phrasing is commonly attributed to Nimitz about Iwo Jima.
Foss in fact did show extreme courage under fire in stories like personally transferring fuel in the open under fire so he could take off from the weak ground position under attack and carry the battle to the enemy. As a trained pilot and potential terrorist there is the story of the TSA stopping Foss at check in for potentially using a medal, like a Japanese throwing star do you suppose, to threaten a high jacking. Snopes gets it right for this case.
Joseph J. Foss Medal of Honor
A case of airport security deeming the Medal of Honor carried by a war hero to be a potential weapon.
Claim: A Medal of Honor carried by a World War II veteran aroused suspicion among airport security forces.
TRUE