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And Doing It Extraordinarily Well*■' Busy watching the see-saw antics of the leaders trying to achieve a truce in Korea, the world in -recent weeks has tended to overlook the real heroes of that bloody peninsula, men like Sgt David B. Bleak.' * go THE MEDAL Sgt. Bleak was awarded Monday served as a reminder. A reminder of the greatness of the average American soldier, who is doing a bitter, thankless task thousands of miles from home—and doing it extra-wMv-‘ordinarily well.• 'THE ARMY awarded Sgt. Bleak,20.'of Shelley, Ida., the _ nation’s highest award for her'-'sm—the 3\fcdal of Honor. A 250-pound, six foot medic, Sgt. Bleak performed acts of almost incredible courage ami physical strength while on a patrol with California’s 40th Division in June. 1952.SGT. BLEAK took lime out from treating the wounded to attack three Red soldiers in a small trench,.slaying two with his bare Hands and killing the third with a knife. During the same patrol, he smashed together the heads of two other Reds armed with .fixed bayonets, was hit in the leg by machine gun fire and miraculously escaped injury while shielding a wounded soldier from the full force of a grenade blast.Barter recovering fromhis wound, husky Sgt. Bleak volunteered (something the average Gl'is loath to do) for a second tour of combat duty.•In CONTRAST with Sgt. Bleak was a report on another Korea hero—Cpl. Paul Schnur Jr., 24, a former prisoner of war who was awarded the Bronze Star for valor shortly after he was released by the Korean Communists who had Objected him to ‘'brainwashing.” Monday, the Army disclosed that Schnur, son of a left-wing San Francisco labor leader, has been riven 'an undesirable discharge for being ''disloyal.”I1MRS. KEENAN WYNNDidn't Laugh at Hubby’s Jokes
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Long Beach Independent
Long Beach, California, US
Tue, Jun 30, 1953
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