
Dave
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Simple poll. be honest As of today, how much do you still trust this man? A. 100 % B. 75% F.10% C. 50% D. 25% E. 0%










🙏🇺🇸🙏 There are stories from Vietnam that stick with you-and this is one of them. The U.S. Senate passed H.R. 3377, and President Trump has now signed it into law —clearing the way for retired Marine Major James Capers to be awarded the Medal of Honor. And honestly, it's about time. Back in April of 1967, Capers and his team were hit in a vicious ambush. Hidden explosives tore through the unit. Capers took two bullets, 17 pieces of shrapnel, and even broke his leg. Most men would've been out right there-but not him. He kept fighting. Kept leading. At one point, when a helicopter came in to pull them out, Capers actually tried to get off so the bird would be light enough to carry his men. Let that sink in. His Marines had to drag him back onboard. That's leadership you don't teach-that's something you're made of. Capers wasn't just tough-he was a trailblazer. First Black Marine to lead a reconnaissance company and earn a battlefield commission. And in the middle of all that chaos, badly wounded and losing blood, he still called in a mortar strike on his own position to keep the enemy off his men. Even then, he refused evacuation unless they brought back the body of their military working dog. That tells you everything about the man. By the end of it, nearly everyone was wounded. One Marine lost a leg, another a kidney. Capers himself was torn up bad-but he never stopped leading. He was awarded the Bronze Star with valor, later upgraded to the Silver Star. But for a lot of us, that never felt like enough. Some heroes don't get their due right away —but their story doesn't fade either. 🙏🇺🇸🙏 Photo courtesy of marine250.com
















