NEED to KNOW!!!! These Heroes!!!

[center:ldkdk651]Norman Percevel Rockwell [/center:ldkdk651]
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Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.[1] Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter (although his Rosie was reproduced less than others of the day), Saying Grace (1951), and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations.
Read this rest at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell

[center:26jqhafx]Milton Lee Olive, III [/center:26jqhafx]
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"(Milton Olive) is the eighth Negro American to receive this Nation's highest award. Fortunately, it will be more difficult for future presidents to say how many Negroes have received the Medal of Honor. For unlike the other seven, Private Olive's military records have never carried the color of his skin or his racial origin, only the testimony that he was a good and loyal citizen of the United States of America."
President Lyndon B. Johnson - April 21, 1966

When one Black boy came into this world in Chicago on November 7, 1946, it was a day of mixed emotions for Milton Olive, Jr. The newborn child was Milton and Clara Lee Olive's first child. He was also destined to be their last; Clara Lee died four hours giving birth to a new life. The third generation in a line of Milton Olives, that infant was given his mother's middle name, becoming Milton Lee Olive, III. Throughout his life however, he would become affectionately known to his family, and years later to his comrades in the Army, as "Skipper" or "Skip".

For Milton Olive, Jr., the news on that day went from bad to worse. Not only had he lost his young wife, the prognosis for the survival of his infant son did not bode well. Doctors gave him little chance of surviving more than one or two days. But the under-weight, fragile little boy fought for life with a resolve that belied his scrawny frame. He survived those first critical days and was soon released from the hospital to the South Side Chicago home where he would grow up, with periodic visits to live with his grandparents in Mississippi.

Skipper was never a South Side Chicago hard-case like many of the young boys who had to grow up in what was often a rough side of the city. Rather, he was a quiet kid, never hanging out with neighborhood toughs or seeking trouble. That rather placid personality however, was never misunderstood as a character weakness by those who knew him. Skipper was a scrapper when circumstances demanded it; his very survival against a gloomy medical prognosis had demonstrated this vividly.

Even in those early, formative years after his birth, Skipper's health was always a matter of concern. "It wasn't until he was in the first or second grade that we began to quit worrying, and realized he would survive," recalled Barbara Penelton, his aunt, during a recent interview.

Read his story at : http://homeofheroes.com/DG/04d_olive.html

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[center:rvrcngcv]The United States Secret Service is sworn to protect the President of the United States. [/center:rvrcngcv]
(My Comment: Just one of many)
Robert Lee DeProspero was a respected United States Secret Service agent, serving from 1965 to 1986 [1] He is notable for serving on the Presidential Protective Division (PPD) during a large part of the Reagan administration, and for heading that division towards the end of his tenure.[2]

DeProspero devised several very important and innovative security measures during his time in the Secret Service that are used today: the "hospital agent" (stationing an agent at the nearest primary trauma hospital on a presidential movement), as well as the creation of metal detector checkpoints to screen every individual who could get a view of the president [4]

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

[center:1eto3l1z]Florence Nightingale [/center:1eto3l1z][center:1eto3l1z] [/center:1eto3l1z]

Florence Nightingale OM,RRC; (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.

Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

[center:2hjh18zc]Please just pray for the 31 heroes we lost this weekend.
Pray for comfort the the loved ones they left…..






































In Jesus Christ Name! Amen!
THANK YOU![/center:2hjh18zc]

[center:1uzoel19]BRIG GEN PAUL T "PJ" JOHNSON [/center:1uzoel19]
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Brig. Gen. Paul T. Johnson is the commander of the 355th Fighter Wing, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. He is responsible for one of the largest installations and flying operations in the United States Air Force, with more than 6,700 Airmen, 3,200 civilians, and over 100 aircraft. He serves as the senior officer responsible for organizing, training, and equipping a 22-squadron wing including three fighter squadrons. The 355th Fighter Wing provides A-10 close air support, OA-10 forward air control, combat support forces, and medical forces to combatant commanders worldwide. The 355th Fighter Wing also provides flying training to all active duty Air Force A-10 pilots.

Read the rest of his story at : http://www.dm.af.mil/library/biographies/bio.asp?id=11373

[center:kea7gg8c]Michael P. Murphy [/center:kea7gg8c]
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[center:kea7gg8c]Michael Murphy in his Service Dress Blue uniform
Nickname "Murph"
Place of birth Smithtown, New York
Place of death Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Resting place Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, New York
Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch United States Navy
Years of service 2000 - 2005
Rank Lieutenant
Unit United States Navy SEALs, SDV Team 1
Battles/wars War in Afghanistan, Operation Red Wings
Awards Medal of Honor, Silver Star, Purple Heart
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Michael Patrick Murphy (May 7, 1976 – June 28, 2005) was a United States Navy SEAL posthumously awarded the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in 2005 during the War in Afghanistan. He was the first person to be awarded the medal for actions in Afghanistan; and the first member of the U.S. Navy to receive the award since the Vietnam War.
Michael Murphy was born and raised in Suffolk County, New York. After graduating from high school he went to Penn State, graduating with honors and dual degrees in both political science and psychology. After college he accepted a commission in the United States Navy and became a United States Navy SEAL in July 2002.
Murphy was sent on several missions while participating in the Global War on Terrorism and was killed on June 28, 2005 after his team was compromised and surrounded by Taliban forces near Asadabad, Afghanistan.
In addition to the Medal of Honor, Murphy received other awards including the Silver Star and Purple Heart. Since his death, a United States Navy destroyer, a post office and a park have been named in his honor.

Read his story at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Murphy

[center:1ob1rxzh]Benjamin Franklin [/center:1ob1rxzh]
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705[1]] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.

Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.[2] Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical and democratic values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat."[3] To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."[4]

Read the rest of this heroes story at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

[center:2a5wh18h]Medal of Honor Roll Call: Richard David Dewert [/center:2a5wh18h]
[center:2a5wh18h]November 17, 1931(1931-11-17) – April 5, 1951(1951-04-05) (aged 19)[/center:2a5wh18h]
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Bay State Navy corpsman served with Marines
by Robert J. Laplander
Excerpt: "When a fire team from the point platoon of his company was pinned down by a deadly barrage of hostile automatic weapons fired and suffered many casualties, HC Dewert rushed to the assistance of 1 of the more seriously wounded and, despite a painful leg wound sustained while dragging the stricken marine to safety, steadfastly refused medical treatment for himself and immediately dashed back through the fireswept area to carry a second wounded man out of the line of fire."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45358

In 1951, Hospitalman De Wert served with the Marines as they cleared North Korean guerrillas from rural areas of South Korea and as they helped drive the enemy beyond the Thirty-Eighth Parallel. On April 5, 1951, while with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines during an attack on Chinese Communist forces, De Wert persistently, and in spite of his own wounds, moved through fire-swept ground to aid fallen Marines. He was killed in action while administering first aid to an injured comrade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_De_Wert

[center:kzqplk1w]Achilles - Greek Hero at Troy [/center:kzqplk1w]
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[center:kzqplk1w]Achilles tending Patroclus' wounds from a red-figure kylix by the Sosias Painter from about 500 B.C. in the Staatliche museum in Berlin. Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia. In the Staatliche Museen, Antikenabteilung, Berlin.[/center:kzqplk1w]

Achilles is part of the Achaean (Greek) force in the Trojan War. Agamemnon leads the Achaeans to Troy to win back Helen for his brother Menelaus. Proud and autocratic, Agamemnon antagonizes Achilles, and so Achilles sits out the fighting. At long last, revenge motivates Achilles to join the fray after his friend Patroclus is killed by Hector, the greatest of the Trojans. An enraged Achilles kills Hector and then dishonors the body by dragging it around tied to the back of a chariot for 9 days. The gods keep the corpse miraculously sound during this time. Then the father of Hector, King Priam of Troy, appealing to the better nature of Achilles, persuades him to return Hector's corpse to his family in Troy for proper funeral rites.

Read the rest at: http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/achilles/g/Achilles.htm