Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds – a Righteous Among the Nations

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Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds – a Righteous Among the Nations

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 9:12pm

AP Reports:

 

The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate.

 

But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-ranking noncommissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he ordered more than 1,000 Americans captives to step forward with him and brazenly pronounced: “We are all Jews here.”

 

He would not waver, even with a pistol to his head, and his captors eventually backed down.

 

Seventy years later, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native is being posthumously recognized with Israel’s highest honor for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II. He’s the first American serviceman to earn the honor.

The Yad Vashem news release explains further: http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/12/master-sgt-roddie-edmonds-a-righteous-among-the-nations/

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LukeHandCool

December 3, 2015 at 11:36 am

 

Who among us does not agree that the principled, courageous, righteous undergrad snowflakes making demands against the tyranny of their university administration oppressors—“We are all social justice warriors”—would be capable of the same selfless bravery?

 

My oh my how we’ve progressed over the last 70 years.

 

What undergrad snowflake would not stand firm to their principles and convictions with a gun pointed at their head?

 

I think the Professor should relate this story when he debates the snowflakes.

 

It will put their courage in perspective.

 

While 70 years ago a generation of college-age men simply ventured out of the “safe spaces” of their landing crafts to storm the beaches of Normandy, imagine the courage of a greater magnitude it would take to venture out of a campus safe space to debate a professor.

 

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Well Said!!!