06-04-2008, 12:51
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MOH Award to youngest recipient at 17 years old
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Willie Johnston, drummer of Company D, 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry, was the seventh soldier in the U.S. Army to be honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor. He received the award on September 16, 1863 for bravery during the Seven Days Battles, he not being quite 12 years old. Willie still remains as the youngest to ever take the nation's highest honor.
http://www.medalofhonor.com/JulianScott.htm
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I stand corrected,your right.....However,he was the youngest Marine to have ever received the MOH.....
http://www.picayuneitem.com/local/lo...155124836.html
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Jack Lucas passed away today....Rest in peace Marine.
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06-04-2008, 13:11
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WOW GOD Bless him...... and the Corpsman that saved him....
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06-04-2008, 14:43
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Prayers out for Jack Lucas and his family. Well done Marine!!
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06-04-2008, 15:37
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WoW is right!...Grenades, malfunctions, contracts on his life, this guy was Indestructable. Prayers out to him and his family.
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06-04-2008, 16:11
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Prayers out to him and his family.
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06-04-2008, 17:01
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Willie Johnston, drummer of Company D, 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry, was the seventh soldier in the U.S. Army to be honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor. He received the award on September 16, 1863 for bravery during the Seven Days Battles, he not being quite 12 years old. Willie still remains as the youngest to ever take the nation's highest honor.
http://www.medalofhonor.com/JulianScott.htm
Richard
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06-04-2008, 17:03
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WoW is right!...Grenades, malfunctions, contracts on his life, this guy was Indestructable. Prayers out to him and his family.
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x10!
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06-05-2008, 01:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
Willie Johnston, drummer of Company D, 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry, was the seventh soldier in the U.S. Army to be honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor. He received the award on September 16, 1863 for bravery during the Seven Days Battles, he not being quite 12 years old. Willie still remains as the youngest to ever take the nation's highest honor.
http://www.medalofhonor.com/JulianScott.htm
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I stand corrected,your right.....However,he was the youngest Marine to have ever received the MOH.....
Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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06-07-2008, 12:16
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I stand corrected,your right.....However,he was the youngest Marine to have ever received the MOH.....
Teddy
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Don't know about the 'youngest' Marine, but apparently the youngest person to receive the MOH during the 20th Century and--according to the newspaper--the youngest surviving veteran of WW2.
Richard
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