We Are The Mighty: This Green Beret’s heroism was so incredible that Ronald Reagan said it was hard to believe
Master Sgt. Raul “Roy” P. Benavidez was a young special forces linguist and medic when, in 1965, he stepped on a mine in Vietnam and was evacuated to the United States. He was told he’d never walk again. But, wanting to return to Vietnam, he began a nightly ritual of attempting to relearn how to walk despite explicit orders from his doctors.
A year later, his doctor was standing in Benavidez’s hospital room with medical discharge papers. The doctor made a deal with Benavidez that he’d tear up the discharge if Benavidez walked out of the room. Benavidez did one better by walking out of the ward.
WNU Editor: Wounded 37 times in six hours of combat .... I am speechless.
2 comments:
The primary purpose of life, to survive as long as possible.
thanks for your service, Roy!
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