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LewWaters
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 Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:56 am Post subject: First Sioux to Receive Medal of Honor |
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Several of our current Politicians and even former leaders could learn a lot about duty and honor from this warrior.
First Sioux to Receive Medal of Honor
| Quote: | WASHINGTON - During the final allied offensive of the Korean War, Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble risked his life to save his fellow Soldiers. Almost six decades after his gallant actions and 26 years after his death, Keeble will be the first full-blooded Sioux Indian to receive the Medal of Honor.
The White House announced this morning that Keeble will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously in a ceremony scheduled for 2:30 p.m. March 3.
Keeble is one of the most decorated Soldiers in North Dakota history. A veteran of World War II and the Korean War, he was born in 1917 in Waubay, S.D., on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Reservation, which extended into North Dakota. He spent most of his life in the Wahpeton, N.D. area, where he attended an Indian school. In 1942 Keeble joined the North Dakota National Guard, and in October that year, found himself embroiled in some of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat of World War II on Guadalcanal. |
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GenrXr
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Great to hear. It is good there are still advocates for such men.
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Leeman
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Thanks for the great post. We should never forget these brave men.
The only other Indian that I know of that won the Medal of Honor was a Three Quarter Cherokee Indian named Ernest E. Evans, First & only skipper of the Destroyer Johnston (DD-557) He received the Medal of Honor Posthumously for his actions during Worls war 2 in The Battle of Samar a part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
You can read about him in a fairly new book called "Sea of Thunder" by Evan Thomas.
or check out this site WWW.bosamar.com for more info on CMDR. Evans
even an old radio show from 1947
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