Apr
10
2008
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Written by JD Johannes
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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"When have we ever taken a hero
on the battlefield and put them up on a pedastal that we would put an
athlete?" David Bellavia asked.
For expressing that sentiment, Bellavia
has bourne the scorn of lesser and 'accurs'd' men.
I interviewed Bellavia during the Vets
for Freedom National Heroes Tour stop in Kansas City at the World War
I Museum.
A Silver Star recipient, Bellavia has
been nominated for the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle
of Fallujah in 2004. Bellavia went into a house full of terrorists.
Bellavia came out alive--the terrorists didn't.
In the stone and glass interior of the
WWI museum, it struck me that Bellavia has much in common with WWI's
most famous hero--Sgt. Alvin York .
Both exhibited gallantry on the battlefield,
both are religious men, both are involved in the issues of the day.
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