Pennsylvania has produced some of the greatest examples of courage, fortitude, and heroism in the history of mankind. Our country and the world are safer and more free because of them. They are people like John Pinder Jr., of McKees Rock, who was killed on D-Day and was awarded the Medal of Honor. Pinder was tasked with carrying a radio the length of a football field through waist-deep water to a fire-swept beach. He was hit by enemy fire in the first few steps off his landing craft. But he brought his radio to shore. He returned to the waves, several times to salvage equipment. On his third trip, he was hit in the legs by machine gun fire. Refusing medical attention, John Pinder continued to establish radio communications, stopping only when he was hit again and killed.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:43:00 +0000
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