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This story is awesome:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/02/17/wor...

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds of Knoxville, Tennessee, whose defiance of German captors in a prisoner of war camp saved the lives of almost 200 Jewish American troops during the war, is posthumously receiving the Medal of Honor.

These stories give one goosebumps, marveling at the bravery these people have:

He was imprisoned in a war camp that was used by the Nazis to identify and segregate Jewish soldiers. While being detained, Edmonds was ordered to identify which American soldiers under his command were Jewish. Edmonds defied the Nazis by ordering all his men to stand outside their prison barracks so that none could be singled out.

As the story goes, a German officer pulled a gun on Edmonds and angrily shouted, “They cannot all be Jews!” to which Edmonds replied, “We are all Jews here.”

Edmonds still refused to identify which of the soldiers were Jewish, instead saying, “According to the Geneva Convention, we only have to give our name, rank, and serial number. If you shoot me, you will have to shoot all of us and, after the war, you will be tried for war crimes.”

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Part of the "greatest generation". Not the usual Audie Murphy type of story, but still exceptional courage and conviction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddie_Edmonds

Apparently, according to this, he kept the story to himself after the war. It was only discovered after his death because he kept diaries.

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