by jack | Jun 26, 2022 | Fire Fighters
11 PM, January 16, 2017 Task Force 33 of the Los Angeles Fire Department responds to a fire, finding a bungalow completely engulfed in flames. Neighbors shout that there are children trapped inside. Looking for a way into the house, firefighter Bryce Gutierrez heard...
by jack | Jun 21, 2022 | Citizen Heroes
The story of Frederick McKinley Jones is an outstanding example of how a person born with no advantages can nevertheless achieve remarkable accomplishments. Mr. Jones was born to an Irish American railroad worker and an African American mother. His mother died when he...
by jack | Jun 13, 2022 | Military, WWII
Okinawa, May 21, 1945 Private Desmond Doss and his battalion were ordered to ascend a jagged 350-foot escarpment called the Maeda Escarpment, which was heavily fortified with Japanese defenders. “The Japanese had been there for years,” said Doss....
by jack | Jun 6, 2022 | WWII
‘Monday, June 5, 1944. Thus has been made the vital and crucial decision to stage the great enterprise which [shall?], I hope, be the immediate means of bringing about the downfall of Germany’s fighting power & Nazi oppression & an early cessation of...
by jack | Jun 3, 2022 | Korean War, Military, USMC, Vietnam War, WWII
Hwach’on, Korea, 29 May 1951 UN and American forces have launched a counteroffensive to push Chinese and North Korean forces north, away from strategic locations in Gangwon Province. The terrain is extremely rugged–ridges and narrow valleys with few roads...
