Medal of Honor recipient (Viet Nam hero, green beret) dies of covid19

[Tanuki]

https://wcti12.com/news/nation-world/medal-of-honor-winner-dies-from-covid-19?_gl=1*115v9it*_ga*QnBjTVZfVDVkWVdXNGNnV3hzR1VmZWhOdFJXYVBJX1VETmFaeXNmeEFIRHVvTUV1ZXZrSENZWFJLc3Mzcm9IdQ..


"OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Bennie G. Adkins, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War, died from complications from COVID-19.

Adkins served more than 20 years in the U.S. Army with 13 of those years spent as a Green Beret. He was deployed to Vietnam three times and was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014 for heroism in a 1966 battle.

According to the Medal of Honor citation, Adkins carried wounded soldiers to safety — sometimes drawing fire on himself to allow the wounded to be rescued— and fought off waves of attacking forces.

"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," the Medal of Honor citation read."...(more)

[orwell]

1. I sure that will be the lead story...

... on Hannity tonight.

Oh that's right, Trump is in the White House...

Never mind...

RIP Bennie Adkins. You deserved better than this...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. "Adkins killed between 135 and 175 of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds"

Wow.

I wonder why it took until 48 years later to award him the medal.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Wow, that last paragraph on his action is amazing.

Jesus, why wasn't this a made into holiwood action war story?

[lpbk2713]

4. Sgt Adkins has a Wikipedia page.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennie_G._Adkins

He was in the A Shau battle. Which is to say he went through hell and back.

And now he is a casualty of Trump's war against the American people.

[Tanuki]

8. Thanks for the link. Well worth reading...what an incredible life

of honor, courage, service to our nation, and self sacrifice! As another poster stated, he certainly deserved better than this sad and needless last chapter, done in at last by Donald Trump's incompetence and disregard for the lives and wellbeing of our citizens.

[Cha]

5. ..

[lunasun]

6. RIP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1440

[Docreed2003]

7. Rest easy soldier!

[keithbvadu2]

9. If he had been captured, Trump would have ridiculed him.

If he had been captured, Trump would have ridiculed him.