Author Topic: The Most Bad Ass Congressman is a Japanese American Democrat Medal of Honor Win (Read 4782 times)

The True Adonis · « **on:** August 14, 2012, 07:53:46 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye

In 1943, when the U.S. Army dropped its ban on Japanese-Americans, Inouye curtailed his premedical studies at the University of Hawaii and enlisted in the Army.[6] He was assigned to the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which became the most-highly decorated unit in the history of the US Army.[7]

Inouye was promoted to the rank of sergeant within his first year, and he was given the role of platoon leader. He served in Italy in 1944 during the Rome-Arno Campaign before his regiment was transferred to the Vosges Mountains region of France, where he spent two weeks in the battle to relieve the Lost Battalion, a battalion of the 141st Infantry Division that was surrounded by German forces. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant for his actions there. At one point while he was leading an attack, a shot struck him in the chest directly above his heart, but the bullet was stopped by the two silver dollars he happened to have stacked in his shirt pocket.[8] He continued to carry the coins throughout the war in his shirt pocket as good luck charms until he lost them shortly before the battle in which he lost his arm.[9]
Inouye as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army

On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy called Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint along the strip of German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, which represented the last and most dogged line of German defensive works in Italy. As he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions just 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach; ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and fire from his M1 Thompson submachine gun. After being informed of the severity of his wound by his platoon sergeant, he refused treatment and rallied his men for an attack on the second machine gun position, which he also successfully destroyed before collapsing from blood loss.

As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore".[10] Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye managed to pry the live grenade from his useless right hand and transfer it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye managed at last to toss the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroy it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, "nobody [had] called off the war!"[11]

The remainder of Inouye's mutilated right arm was later amputated at a field hospital without proper anesthesia, as he had been given too much morphine at an aid station and it was feared any more would lower his blood pressure enough to kill him.

TL, DR: Sen. Daniel Inouye fought for the US during WWII. In one battle, he was shot in the stomach, had his arm nearly blown off and was shot in the leg. He continued fighting until he passed out, then had his arm amputated without anesthesia

chaos · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2012, 07:56:13 PM »

Quote from: The True Adonis on August 14, 2012, 07:53:46 PM

TL, DR: Sen. Daniel Inouye fought for the US during WWII. In one battle, he was shot in the stomach, had his arm nearly blown off and was shot in the leg. He continued fighting until he passed out, then had his arm amputated without anesthesia

Thanks

240 is Back · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2012, 07:56:28 PM »

Total badass.

Shockwave · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2012, 07:58:38 PM »

What a fucking savage.
Getting his arm blown off, and then proceeding to pull the grenade from his severed limb... Crazy.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:01:56 PM »

Quote from: Shockwave on August 14, 2012, 07:58:38 PM

What a fucking savage.
Getting his arm blown off, and then proceeding to pull the grenade from his severed limb... Crazy.

I can`t imagine Paul Ryan, Romney, Biden or Obama doing any of that.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:04:33 PM »

He is third in Line for the Presidency, should anything happen to the President or Vice President.

At least that is a comforting thought.

SF1900 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:06:26 PM »

He should be president. His badassness would bring Epic change!

Shockwave · « **Reply #7 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:07:03 PM »

Quote from: The True Adonis on August 14, 2012, 08:01:56 PM

I can`t imagine Paul Ryan, Romney, Biden or Obama doing any of that.

No.
I can't imagine anyone I know doing anything like that. The people that fought in that war were different.

Take this guy for instance, GySgt John Basilone. At one point during the battle for Guadalcanal, dude was actually running back and forth firing his water cooled .30 cal from the hip, burning the shit out of his hands. His 15 man crew stopped 3000 enemy soldiers.

He got the MoH for it.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:07:49 PM »

He stepped on a tripwire and got a shotgun-blast of grenade shrapnel in his leg he just "walked it off" and kept on wasting Fascists with a relentless series of rifle butts and bazooka blasts. By his fourth battle he was already a Sergeant.

Jadeveon Clowney · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:08:57 PM »

True badasses like suckmymuscle are genetically engineered to be bulletproof.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:10:35 PM »

After five days of hand-to-hand, bayonet-to-face combat that cost the 442nd roughly a third of their men, Inouye and his unit busted through the lines in an explosion of blood, found the Texans, and shot their way out of the trap like Ellen Ripley tearing ass through the colony on LV-426 in an APC. For kicking asses and leading his platoon through a battle they had absolutely no business winning, Inouye was issued a Bronze star and a commission to Second Lieutenant. According to Inouye, the best part of this commission was that he now got to tote a Thompson submachine gun into combat

chaos · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:12:14 PM »

When men were men.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #12 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:14:55 PM »

BIG ACH · « **Reply #13 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:19:54 PM »

I have actually met this Senator numerous times. He lived in my building when i was living in DC. Very nice man, extremely friendly, and he always had tons of security. There was always a secret service car in the garage right by the door and secret service agents all over the building. This guy is pretty important in the Senate!

chaos · « **Reply #14 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:22:43 PM »

Quote from: BIG ACH on August 14, 2012, 08:19:54 PM

I have actually met this Senator numerous times. He lived in my building when i was living in DC. Very nice man, extremely friendly, and he always had tons of security. There was always a secret service car in the garage right by the door and secret service agents all over the building. This guy is pretty important in the Senate!

They weren't there to protect him, they were there to protect the public.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #15 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:24:56 PM »

Quote from: chaos on August 14, 2012, 08:22:43 PM

They weren't there to protect him, they were there to protect the public.

ROFLMAO yes!

Big Ach, you probably met one of the best Americans you could possibly meet ever. I can`t believe you didn`t get a Big Ach style pic with him in your wife beater!

Bevo · « **Reply #16 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:39:25 PM »

Real life rambo!!! We got some of these on here that can barehand take out 20 people

SF1900 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:42:06 PM »

Quote from: chaos on August 14, 2012, 08:22:43 PM

They weren't there to protect him, they were there to protect the public.

good one

BIG ACH · « **Reply #18 on:** August 14, 2012, 09:17:16 PM »

Quote from: BIG ACH on August 14, 2012, 08:19:54 PM

I have actually met this Senator numerous times. He lived in my building when i was living in DC. Very nice man, extremely friendly, and he always had tons of security. There was always a secret service car in the garage right by the door and secret service agents all over the building. This guy is pretty important in the Senate!

Man I really wanted to, but its intimidating with all the secret service around. And they really rush him to get him up to his condo. Every time I've bumped into him its in the parking lot or the lobby and it was always very brief. Maybe next time I'm in DC and if he is still there, my family still has the condo up there!

Shockwave · « **Reply #19 on:** August 15, 2012, 05:15:59 AM »

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bleeding profusely, his intestines spilling from his stomach wounds, and completely immobile, a doctor thought him to be dead. Roy was placed in a body bag, before the doctor discovered he was still alive. Miraculously, he survived, but spent a year in hospitals recovering from seven serious gunshot wounds, twenty-eight shrapnel wounds, and bayonet wounds in both arms.

Holy shit. Talk about an iron will.

#1 Klaus fan · « **Reply #20 on:** August 15, 2012, 06:21:39 AM »

And all his sacrifices were in vain...

CalvinH · « **Reply #21 on:** August 15, 2012, 06:28:51 AM »

Quote from: chaos on August 14, 2012, 08:22:43 PM

They weren't there to protect him, they were there to protect the public.

Bas ass mofo

ob205 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 15, 2012, 06:36:16 AM »

That's not heroism, this is TRUE courage during the Vietnam Conflict

Also, 5 sons all (military age) with no military service during our 2 wars.

Irongrip400 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 15, 2012, 06:54:08 AM »

I just watched a program on Military History channel and they had a segment about him. I took a WW2 class in college which talked about this group of Japanese Americans, and their motto was "go for broke". They had a desertion rate of 0.

flipper5470 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 15, 2012, 07:04:21 AM »

Quote from: ob205 on August 15, 2012, 06:36:16 AM

That's not heroism, this is TRUE courage during the Vietnam Conflict Also, 5 sons all (military age) with no military service during our 2 wars.

Well..at least Romney doesn't owe his political career to a man like Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers. Ayers was a founder of the Weather Underground...an anti-American terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon. Which...I guess puts Ayers in the same league as Bin Ladin...