{"id":877,"date":"2011-09-14T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/sweetshore\/?p=877"},"modified":"2011-09-14T22:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T02:50:28","slug":"a-true-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sweetshore\/2011\/09\/a-true-hero.html","title":{"rendered":"A True Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"    \" src=\"https:\/\/www.homeofheroes.com\/hallofheroes\/2nd_floor\/opportunity\/hero_1\/03c_sasser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarence Eugene Sasser                Medal of Honor                      Medic, Vietnam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><strong>As the helicopters unloaded the young soldiers near a rice paddy in Vietnam, the enemy began to rain fire on them from three sides.\u00a0 More than 30 young soldiers fell wounded in the opening minutes.\u00a0 Heedless of the danger, one lone medic moved among them.\u00a0 Wounded in the shoulder, still he made repeated trips under the enemy guns to rescue his comrades.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/strong>Twice more the brave aid man&#8217;s body was struck by enemy fire, the last rendering his legs useless.\u00a0 Bleeding badly, struggling to maintain consciousness, he continued to render first aid to the broken bodies of young American soldiers. \u00a0 Paralyzed from the waist down, he dragged his body 100 yards through the mud to rescue one soldier.\u00a0 It was not enough, there were many more in need of his help. \u00a0 For FIVE HOURS the brave young medic continued to force his body to do the impossible.\u00a0 If his legs wouldn&#8217;t work, he would crawl.\u00a0 And he did&#8230;saving life after life&#8230;heedless of the danger to himself.\u00a0 When finally the battle subsided and helicopters arrived to remove the wounded he lay on the ground, unable to move further, but refusing to be evacuated until every other wounded soldier had been flown to safety.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><strong>This story was taken from www.homeoftheheroes.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the helicopters unloaded the young soldiers near a rice paddy in Vietnam, the enemy began to rain fire on them from three sides.\u00a0 More than 30 young soldiers fell wounded in the opening minutes.\u00a0 Heedless of the danger, one lone medic moved among them.\u00a0 Wounded in the shoulder, still he made repeated trips under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,67,205],"tags":[507,206,515],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medal-of-honor","category-military-heroism","category-vietnam","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-medic","tag-vietnam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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