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WWII World War Two
Native Americans
American History
Warfare
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Great Piece ... Thanks for The Share and Information...
With Honor and respect... Salute...
With Honor and respect... Salute...
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A very touching story by Chief Joe Medicine Crow who wanted to honor not only himself but his grandfather. Thanks for sharing this. I have a relationship too with an Indian Warrior who fought in Vietnam. He served with the Marine Corp and was wounded many times but requested that he stay with his unit to protect his brother warriors in his company.
He is an old man now, bent and grey with little else to show but his memories of his deeds as a warrior in the Marine Corp. His eyes shine when he recounts his missions in Vietnam. He was the Marine Corp escort for Queen Elizabeth when she visited the United States.in 1957. He is retired now on the small pension he receives from his Marine Corp retirement and social security so he has little to pay for his vehicle repairs.
So we trade for those repairs. I offered to help him because I respect him as a warrior but he refused, saying he would lose my respect if he took charity from me. He has made me over the years a number of war clubs, war shields, a Buffalo Head Dress, dance sticks, deer hoove rattles, hand drums, gun stock battle clubs with knife blades, medicine bags, parfleche bags, a bow and quiver with turkey fleched arrows, and the list goes on and on.
He has adopted me as a member of his tribe and I honor him by keeping his Warrior Biography and photograph on the wall of my Man Cave. I also keep on display all of his gifts to me in trade for my repairs for him. These are museum quality pieces that are aged to look as though they were picked up off the battlefield in the early 17th or 18th century . I feel fortunate to know this warrior and be accepted as his friend and fellow warrior.
He is an old man now, bent and grey with little else to show but his memories of his deeds as a warrior in the Marine Corp. His eyes shine when he recounts his missions in Vietnam. He was the Marine Corp escort for Queen Elizabeth when she visited the United States.in 1957. He is retired now on the small pension he receives from his Marine Corp retirement and social security so he has little to pay for his vehicle repairs.
So we trade for those repairs. I offered to help him because I respect him as a warrior but he refused, saying he would lose my respect if he took charity from me. He has made me over the years a number of war clubs, war shields, a Buffalo Head Dress, dance sticks, deer hoove rattles, hand drums, gun stock battle clubs with knife blades, medicine bags, parfleche bags, a bow and quiver with turkey fleched arrows, and the list goes on and on.
He has adopted me as a member of his tribe and I honor him by keeping his Warrior Biography and photograph on the wall of my Man Cave. I also keep on display all of his gifts to me in trade for my repairs for him. These are museum quality pieces that are aged to look as though they were picked up off the battlefield in the early 17th or 18th century . I feel fortunate to know this warrior and be accepted as his friend and fellow warrior.
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