View Full Version : CPL Tibor Rubin
http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/rubin/index.html
A former Korean War POW is going to be awarded the MOH on 23 September. He was also a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp in WW2.
kawaishi
10-19-2010, 13:21
Just wanted to bump this back up top. These are videos in which he describes the night defending the hill alone, the fight with the machine gun, and the pow experience.
Great Man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUzTx3jgg0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LzYVCb_Jc&feature=related
greenberetTFS
10-19-2010, 15:49
What really amazes me about men like this,HEROES,I mean "real heroes",they are so incredibly humble..............:)
Big Teddy :munchin
Thanks for reposting this, I'd missed it. What a great man. What a life.
spherojon
10-20-2010, 10:50
Saw this a while ago on the military channel and I was absolutely amazed at his character. Sneaking out of a POW camp to get food for other prisoners. A true hero. A humble hero.
BMT (RIP)
03-10-2012, 14:00
http://www.greatamericans.com/video/Portraits-of-Valor-Tibor-Rubin
BMT
'Bout time!
Outstanding soldier.
Great story, glad to hear he finally got his CMOH
MTN Medic
03-10-2012, 16:17
BMT, thanks for the post! It was as emotional as it was motivating! :lifter
Congratulations sir! You earned it!
A very moving story. I am speechless.
His story depicts both the worst and best in humanity.
He is an example for many of us.
A truly humbling story.
H
Bout time. Thank you for your service and being better a better man.....
greenberetTFS
03-11-2012, 06:12
His story has been posted here before,his service was outstanding and deserves his MOH............;) :D
Big Teddy :munchin
Repetitive threads merged. ;)
Richard :munchin
Dozer523
03-11-2012, 22:23
Thanks for your valor, fortitude and patience.
Rest in Peace "GI Joe" Tibor "Ted" Rubin.
The Passing of a GI Joe
Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin wanted to show that Jews could fight as well as die.
Our country lost a hero last Saturday (December 5), a hero it acquired along the way, when Tibor Rubin—“Ted,” as he liked to be called because that was his “American name”—died. His birth certificate said he was 86, but by his own calculation he was actually a little younger than that since he believed that he had a second birthday when he arrived in America 67 years ago...
...Emaciated and diseased, Rubin managed to survive until May 5, 1945, when Malthausen was liberated by the U.S. 11th Armored Division. “When they picked me up I was a sack of bones,” he told me. “I was covered with lice and it didn’t seem that I could live.” Fed and given medical attention, he slowly returned to the world of the living. During his recovery, he was sustained by the image of the American soldiers breaking down the gates of the death camp: “Now I have a debt to pay. I make a promise. If, Lord help me, I ever go to America, I’m gonna be a GI Joe.”
Link (http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261088/passing-gi-joe-peter-collier)