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Thread ID: 20270 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-09-17
2005-09-17 21:38 | User Profile
After 55 Years, Vet to Get Medal of Honor
By PAUL CHAVEZ, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 17, 8:52 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - Tibor Rubin kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II. ADVERTISEMENT
A Hungarian Jew, Rubin immigrated to New York after the war, joined the Army and fought as an infantryman in the Korean War. In 1951, Chinese troops captured Cpl. Rubin and other U.S. soldiers and he became a prisoner of war for 2 1/2 years.
More than five decades later, after a relentless campaign by grateful comrades and Jewish war veterans, President Bush on Sept. 23 will give Rubin the Medal of Honor.
"I was only staying alive to get that medal and now I'm going to enjoy it," said the 76-year-old Rubin, who now lives in Garden Grove.
He was nominated four times for the medal, the nation's highest recognition for bravery in battle. But some believe the paperwork was never submitted because a member of his chain of command discriminated against him for being Jewish and born in Hungary.
When he was at the Chinese prisoners' camp known as "Death Valley," Rubin said he would pray in Hebrew for the U.S. soldiers ââ¬â about 40 each day ââ¬â who died in the freezing weather. He also took care of soldiers suffering from dysentery or pneumonia.
Rubin, who goes by the name Ted, called concentration camp good "basic training" for being a POW and applied lifesaving lessons he learned there. For example, Rubin said he would retrieve maggots from the prisoners' latrine and apply them to the infected wounds of his comrades to remove gangrene.
Fellow POW Sgt. Leo Cormier said Rubin gave a lot of GIs the courage to live.
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2005-09-18 11:39 | User Profile
After 55 years of nagging they finally relented with " Would you STFU already?! Here take it!"
2005-09-18 14:55 | User Profile
Isn't it a popular way among the zhids to get something?
2005-09-18 14:59 | User Profile
So what exatcly heroic did Rubin do? Offer his own brand of psychotherapy to GIs?
Petr
2005-09-27 22:44 | User Profile
I ran across this site today. The one man Army. :rolleyes:
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2005-09-28 13:24 | User Profile
Cracker, An interesting website to say the least.