Nov 11, 2010
To all the selfless men and women who have sacrificed their lives, limbs and sanity to keep America free – thank you. Without you, America as we know it would cease to exist.
A special thanks to Medal of Honor recipient Corporal Tibor “Ted” Rubin (pix) who fought in the Korean War as a way to pay back the American GIs who liberated him from Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
Read his story – listen to him tell it – watch him in “Feats of Valor” now playing on the Military Channel.
After singlehandedly holding off the enemy, Cpl Rubin was taken prisoner by the Chinese along with his fellow soldiers, whom he helped survive using the knowledge he acquired as a teeenager in Mauthausen. He did so as a non-US citizen.
1950 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division – 2005
Cpl Rubin was nominated four times for the Medal of Honor but he never received it. Fortunately, he survived long enough to receive his rightful honor from President Bush on September 23, 2005. Citation text.
The real heroes are those who never came home. I was just lucky, This Medal of Honor belongs to all prisoners of war, to all the heroes who died fighting in those wars.
America is the greatest country in the world!
And you, Corporal Rubin, are the reason why.
