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Author Topic: Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins loses battle with coronavirus at 86  (Read 5442 times)

Offline Alchase

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How sad, it took us 47 years to acknowledge he deserved a Medal of Honor, six years later he dies of Covid19.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/medal-of-honor-recipient-bennie-adkins-coronavirus
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The American Soldier and Jesus Christ. One died for your freedom, the other for your soul.

My rock,
He trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.
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How sad, it took us 47 years to acknowledge he deserved a Medal of Honor, six years later he dies of Covid19.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/medal-of-honor-recipient-bennie-adkins-coronavirus

Does MOH prevent underlying conditions?

Nope, not at all.
Only 2 defining forces sacrificed themselves for you:
The American Soldier and Jesus Christ. One died for your freedom, the other for your soul.

My rock,
He trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.
Psalm 144.1

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Very sad RIP
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“During the thirty-eight hour battle and forty-eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Sergeant First Class Adkins killed between 135 and 175 of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds to his body.”

RIP.

Reading his citation sure puts this stay home stuff in perspective...first world problems.   :twocents:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - TR

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“During the thirty-eight hour battle and forty-eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Sergeant First Class Adkins killed between 135 and 175 of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds to his body.”

RIP.

Reading his citation sure puts this stay home stuff in perspective...first world problems.   :twocents:

And this is what he should be remembered for.

Not dying from the flu

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“During the thirty-eight hour battle and forty-eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoilless rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Sergeant First Class Adkins killed between 135 and 175 of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds to his body.”

RIP.

Reading his citation sure puts this stay home stuff in perspective...first world problems.   :twocents:

 :yeah:

 :salute: Sargent First Class MOH recipient Adkins
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He was the keynote speaker at my sons Special Forces graduation In 2014.  Proud to say I shook the mans hand and talked with him at the various events that went on.  I remember that when he came into the Hotel lobby, everyone stood up and clapped for him, nice moment.

 


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