Here is something to cleanse the bad taste in our mouths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss

Just watched the movie the other night. Highly recommended.

 

Here is something to cleanse the bad taste in our mouths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss

I haven't seen the movie yet, but most of the time these movies are highly sensationalistic making things appear much grander or graver than was actually the case.

After reading his citation for the Medal of Honor, somehow, I think this movie will have a hard time keeping up with reality.

Citation: Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, United States Army, Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division. Near Urasoe-Mura, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 29 April – 21 May 1945. He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Private First Class Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying them one by one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On 2 May, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and two days later he treated four men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave's mouth, where he dressed his comrades' wounds before making four separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On 5 May, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small-arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Private First Class Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On 21 May, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited five hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Private First Class Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers' return, he was again struck, this time suffering a compound fracture of one arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Private First Class Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.

Another movie that I just saw was "On Wings of Eagles", which is about Eric Liddell (who was a central character in "Chariots of Fire", which I've never seen). I tried fact checking the movie (which I usually do because the movies so often bear so little resemblance to the facts -- something that was really driven home after watching "American Made" the other night). Interestingly, in Liddell's case the one thing of note in the movie (that I found in the hour or so I invested in it) that was mentioned as possibly not being accurate (but I couldn't find a site that specifically addressed the overall historical accuracy) was based on the Chinese government claims, leading up to the Beijing Olympics, to have found documents indicating that Liddell had been offered a prisoner swap agreed to by the English and Japanese, with Churchill's knowledge, and that he gave his position to a pregnant woman whose husband had recently died. The Liddell family questioned this claim because they had never heard of it before from any of the survivors from the camp. But my reading of Liddell is that this is exactly the kind of thing he would have done, without hesitation, presented the opportunity and he might well have never mentioned anything about it to any of his campmates.

 

The death penalty would be too good for this guy.

I'm for slowly feeding him his own body parts.

 

The death penalty would be too good for this guy.

I'm for slowly feeding him his own body parts.

I heard the story on the radio news and I wish I could say that it shocked me. Unfortunately, it doesn't. A highly disproportionate share of members in such organizations are child molesters. And that is saying absolutely nothing bad about the overwhelming fraction of their membership that are appalled at this creep's behavior. But the sad fact is that people that want to molest children often seek out membership in such organizations -- as well as youth organizations and school employee positions (including teachers) and religious organizations -- precisely because it places them in a position of trust relative to young children and often gives them unsupervised access to kids.

It's the same reason why a much higher fraction of firefighters are arsonists than the general population -- arsonists seek out the firefighting profession because of the power and access it provides them to commit their crimes (and to learn how to avoid getting caught).

Forcing him to eat his own entrails is a good finish -- but I can think of about a dozen things I'd like to do to him first (not one of a dozen, but all dozen, one after the other).

 

To paraphrase a local radio personality I am living in a world I don't understand.

Ron

 

Forcing him to eat his own entrails is a good finish -- but I can think of about a dozen things I'd like to do to him first (not one of a dozen, but all dozen, one after the other).

There is a reason why, a show like Dexter got 8 seasons.

But we must rise above it. Words can be somewhat taken back but actions stay frozen in time. :|