Tuesday, May 29, 2012

A face from my Generation to Remember, this bravery exists still

The courageous and selfless Milton Olive III, a youth of only eighteen from Chicago, who threw his body over a live grenade in the jungles of Viet Nam, taking the full force of the explosion to save his platoon. He was not even old enough to be called a man, not old enough to vote, not old enough to buy a beer, but he was old enough to die.

Memorial Day 1866

Milton Olive III

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