(합) 한반도 긴장 & 미 해군 영웅
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Tensions between the two Koreas continue to rise. Today the South conducted large scale anti submarine maneuvers off its western coast. It accuses the North of using a torpedo to sink one of its ships back in March killing 46 sailors. The North responded today show of force by cutting off its military hotline with the South.
And a genuine American hero. Remembering a man who went above and beyond the call of duty 의무 이상의 과도한 일을 하는 for his country. Nightly News begins now. We also learned today that this nation has lost a genuine hero. John Finn died today. John was 100 years old. He quit school after the 7th grade. And at age 17, he joined the Navy. That was in 1926. Well, there he was in Pearl Harbor living in military housing with his wife on the morning of the attack.
His life changed that day. The whole world changed that day. And what John did in that early confusion earned him the Medal of Honor. He was the oldest living recipient 수령인 of the medal until his death today.
“I hadn’t got out of bed yet when I first heard those planes.” It was a Sunday morning and John Finn couldn’t figure out why he could hear airplanes and gunfire that morning Sunday, December 7th, 1941. “I looked up and he made a wing over. There was a dirty all horrible colored red Japan circle!” Chief Petty officer 부사관 John Finn ran through smoke and fire and commandeered 징발하다 a 50 caliber machine gun. He took aimed at the planes overhead and started fire.
Waves of Japanese planes were flying overhead and yet he stood there and kept firing for two hours. “I stayed right there with that gun.” John was hit by shrapnel 유산탄의 파편 21 times. He was shot through one foot. His left arm was numb 감각을 잃은 and yet he stayed in the fight. It was still so early in the fight. We didn’t yet know we were in World War Two. Nine months later, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. “For extraordinary heroism, distinguished service and devotion above and beyond the call of duty.”
There was just the sign out on the road to mark John’s California ranch. The scrappy 간추려지지 않은 desert life style seemed to match his personality. John was the last survivor in his group of friends and fellow vets. He lived long enough to visit the oval office last year and meet President Obama. He loved the attention in his later years. But he missed the past, especially his beloved late wife Ellis. We’re going to miss John Finn and as this nation prepares for Memorial Day observances across the country, John Finn’s death now leaves 90 living recipients of the Medal of Honor.