Wednesday Hero: 1st Sgt. Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo

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1st Sgt. Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo

1st Sgt. Jose San Nicolas Crisostomo
59 years old from Spanaway, Washington
August 18, 2009

 U.S. Army

Sorry for the presentation of this post, but haven’t been feeling well and don’t feel much like typing. You can read Sgt. Crisostomo’s story here and here.


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Wednesday Hero: Lt. John Madea

Lt. John Madea

Lt. John Madea

 U.S. Navy

Lt. John Madea holds his daughter as she is baptized with holy water from the ship’s bell of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46). This is the fourth person baptized aboard Tortuga since the ship’s christening in 1988, and her name will be inscribed inside the bell as a tradition of the U.S. Navy.


Photo Courtesy U.S. Navy
Taken By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Geronimo Aquino

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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Wednesday Hero: PFC Thomas Lowell Tucker

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PFC Thomas Lowell Tucker

PFC Thomas Lowell Tucker
24 years old from Madras, Oregon

B Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division
 June 16, 2006

 U.S. Army

Flag Gazer has a great post up on the dedication of the PFC Thomas Tucker memorial.


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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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"Big Chris" Fears Raped a 14 Year Old Girl and Got Her Pregnant

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Big Chris’ MySpace page

Back on May 15th “Big Chris” Fears of Golf Manor, OH allegedly got drunk and raped a 14-year-old girl. Now she’s pregnant with his child. The accusations came out when the girl found out she was pregnant and told her mother that Fears raped her according to court records.

When the girl’s mother confronted Fears he told her that he was drunk at the time and was sorry. He also told her he had come up with the money for an abortion. What a guy!

The mother went to the Golf Manor police station to report the incident and Chris Fears also called police himself except that he called his friend, Police Chief Eddie Taylor, and told him he had “made a mistake and was going to go and turn himself in” At least he had the guts to do the right thing at the end. If only he had done the right thing in the first place.

What sucks is the fact that he didn’t just victimize the 14-year-old girl. He also victimized his wife and children as well.

Chris’ last status update on his MySpace page is “going away for awile love yall”

Source.

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Wednesday Hero: Sgt 1st Class Donald Johnson

Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson

Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson

 U.S. Army

Sgt. 1st Class Donald Johnson, the electronic warfare officer of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, talks with local Iraqi kids while on a patrol.


Photo courtesy of United States Army
Taken by Pfc. Evan Loyd

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Wednesday Hero: Yeoman 1st Class Timothy Gilbert

Yeoman 1st Class Timothy Gilbert

Yeoman 1st Class Timothy Gilbert
 U.S. Navy

Yeoman 1st Class Timothy Gilbert, assigned to Headquarters Company of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB 74), donates blood during a blood drive for his six-year-old daughter at the Naval Construction Battalion Center base chapel. Gilbert’s daughter has been diagnosed with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor and is receiving chemotherapy at Tulane Childrens Hospital.

You can read more about Yeoman Gilbert and his daughter, Timia, here.


Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan G. Wilber courtesy of United States Navy.

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Wednesday Hero: Lance Corporal Jeremy P. Tamburello

Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello

Lance Cpl. Jeremy P. Tamburello
19 years old from Denver, Colorado
1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
November 8, 2005
 U.S.M.C

His parents didn’t want him to enlist, but it was his passion for helping people that led L/Cpl. Jeremy Tamburello to the military. “He was a very noble, very compassionate, very brave man” said L/Cpl. Tamburello’s father, Kevin. “He knew that he was going to have to go to Iraq and he knew that he might die, but he went anyway.”

L/Cpl. Tamburello was killed by an IED while conducting combat operations near Rutbah, Iraq.


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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Wednesday Hero: Staff Sgt Darrell Powers

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SSgt. Darrell

SSgt. Darrell “Shifty” Power
86 years old from Dickerson County, Virginia
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
June 17, 2009

 U.S. Army

The world lost one of it’s true heroes a couple of weeks ago. Darrell “Shifty” Powers passed away on June 17 of cancer. “Shifty” was part of the famed E Co/2/506 of the 101st Airborne Division. Easy Company. The Band Of Brothers.

“I loved everything about my daddy,” said Margo Johnson, daughter of SSgt. Powers. “He never bragged about what he did in the war. And for a lot of years, he never even talked much about what he did – unless someone asked him about it. But he truly was a hero to me. Just like he’d been to the people who know him as a soldier in a [mini-series].”


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We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Wednesday Hero: Sgt Gabe

Sgt. 1st Class Gabe

Assoluta Tranquillita did a post a few days ago and after last week’s Wednesday Hero felt it would be good to profile Sgt. 1st Class Gabe of the 178th Military Police Detachment, 20th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. Is it wrong to be jealous of a dog? Be sure to read the Defend America article linked to in the post.

These brave men and women, and dogs, sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Vacation

I will be on hiatus for the next week, so blogging will be light (if at all). I may put a few posts up, it just depends on my schedule and how much earlier than the girls I wake up over the next seven days.

Hope you folks have a safe, crime-free week!