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dusty17 73M
174 posts
4/6/2024 2:46 pm
Is it WOKE ...
It's last year's News and it feels like this story is more relevant in 2024 than ever ...

Story is from PBS Newshour 3/3/23

83-year-old Paris Davis, one of the first Black military officers to lead an elite unit in combat received the nation's highest award YESTERDAY for bravery on the battlefield.

SIXTY YEARS OVERDUE President Biden awarded retired Army Colonel Paris Davis the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's most prestigious decoration, for Davis' acts of valor as a commander during the Vietnam War.

Biden said, "you are everything this medal means, I mean everything this medal means". ... "you're everything our generation aspired to be. And you are everything our Nation is at our best".

On June 18, 1965, Davis, then a Captain, led his team, plus 95 South Vietnamese troops, in a predawn raid on a North Vietnamese army camp. When the raid started, a counterattack forced the group into a rice paddy with no cover. Every American was wounded, some stranded. Davis, shot and hit by grenade shrapnel, raced back to rescue his team. Davis had been shot twice in the same foot.

Davis twice refused orders from a commander to withdraw. Davis told Commanding Officers "Sir, I'm just not going to leave. I still have an American out there."

THE US MILITARY PROMISED DAVIS THE MEDAL OF HONOR BUT LOST THE PAPERWORK TWICE
dusty17 73M
487 posts
4/6/2024 3:16 pm

 WOKE ... being willing to admit you made a mistake and doing what you can to make it right ...


Rocketship 80F
18570 posts
4/6/2024 3:27 pm

 Urban Dictionary: Woke. When this term became popularized, initially the meaning of this term was when an individual become more aware of the social injustice.
Or basically, any current affairs related like biased, discrimination, or double-standards.

Humility and open-mindedness are key traits to admitting mistakes, accepting feedback from others, and fixing that mistake.

I'm so glad to see this fixed!! Well deserved Paris Davis!!


hermitinthecity 70M
1696 posts
4/9/2024 10:00 pm

 Wonder how many went to their grave forgotten.
Judgment Day will be interesting - and all paths lead there.




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