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Know Your Medal of Honor Recipients:

Colonel Nelson A. Miles (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on May 2-3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Virginia. His citation reads:

Distinguished gallantry while holding with his command an advanced position against repeated assaults by a strong force of the enemy; was severely wounded.

Sergeant Andrew Miller (US Marine Corps) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on August 5, 1864, on board the USS Richmond. His citation reads:

As captain of a gun on board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Despite damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks, Sgt. Miller fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious 2_hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram Tennessee and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan.

Staff Sergeant Andrew Miller (US Army) received his Medal of Honor for his actions on November 16-29, 1944, from Woippy, France, through Metz to Kerprich Hemmersdorf, Germany. His citation reads:

For performing a series of heroic deeds from 1629 November 1944, during his company's relentless drive from Woippy, France, through Metz to Kerprich Hemmersdorf, Germany. As he led a rifle squad on 16 November at Woippy, a crossfire from enemy machineguns pinned down his unit. Ordering his men to remain under cover, he went forward alone, entered a building housing 1 of the guns and forced S Germans to surrender at bayonet point. He then took the second gun single-handedly by hurling grenades into the enemy position, killing 2, wounding 3 more, and taking 2 additional prisoners. At the outskirts of Metz the next day, when his platoon, confused by heavy explosions and the withdrawal of friendly tanks, retired, he fearlessly remained behind armed with an automatic rifle and exchanged bursts with a German machinegun until he silenced the enemy weapon. His quick action in covering his comrades gave the platoon time to regroup and carry on the fight. On 19 November S/Sgt. Miller led an attack on large enemy barracks. Covered by his squad, he crawled to a barracks window, climbed in and captured 6 riflemen occupying the room. His men, and then the entire company, followed through the window, scoured the building, and took 75 prisoners. S/Sgt. Miller volunteered, with 3 comrades, to capture Gestapo officers who were preventing the surrender of German troops in another building. He ran a gauntlet of machinegun fire and was lifted through a window. Inside, he found himself covered by a machine pistol, but he persuaded the 4 Gestapo agents confronting him to surrender. Early the next morning, when strong hostile forces punished his company with heavy fire, S/Sgt. Miller assumed the task of destroying a well-placed machinegun. He was knocked down by a rifle grenade as he climbed an open stairway in a house, but pressed on with a bazooka to find an advantageous spot from which to launch his rocket. He discovered that he could fire only from the roof, a position where he would draw tremendous enemy fire. Facing the risk, he moved into the open, coolly took aim and scored a direct hit on the hostile emplacement, wreaking such havoc that the enemy troops became completely demoralized and began surrendering by the score. The following day, in Metz, he captured 12 more prisoners and silenced an enemy machinegun after volunteering for a hazardous mission in advance of his company's position. On 29 November, as Company G climbed a hill overlooking Kerprich Hemmersdorf, enemy fire pinned the unit to the ground. S/Sgt. Miller, on his own initiative, pressed ahead with his squad past the company's leading element to meet the surprise resistance. His men stood up and advanced deliberately, firing as they went. Inspired by S/Sgt. Miller's leadership, the platoon followed, and then another platoon arose and grimly closed with the Germans. The enemy action was smothered, but at the cost of S/Sgt. Miller's life. His tenacious devotion to the attack, his gallant choice to expose himself to enemy action rather than endanger his men, his limitless bravery, assured the success of Company G.


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Flashback Friday

Me with my good buddy Dach

Me with Maverick and Lucy... just a couple of weeks before Mary Ruth was born

Me with Mary Ruth

Me with Susie

Me and Scooby

Me and Daniel

Mary Ruth and MaMa

Lucas and Daniel

Mary Ruth, Susie and Daniel

Susie, Daniel and Mary Ruth

It's good to be my dog... Scooby, Maverick and Lucy hard at work protecting the house

I won't name names... but there were some who thought we should get rid of Lucy once Mary Ruth was born because she was a "dangerous pitbull".  They all but said we'd be bad parents if we didn't get rid of her.  Well, she was the best dog with our kids... so while I doubt the anti-Lucy people read my blog, I'd like to let them know that they were wrong, but I still love them.  And, with all due respect, they can kiss my ass.  She was a great dog.  Not the best... that was Dach.  But Lucy was a close second.  And for the record, she died of cancer, not a loss of oxygen from Mary Ruth using her as a foot rest.