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Good piece in the NY Post about former NY Giant Jack Lummus who was killed at Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_...zh916EKn5bSiBK

On March 8, Lummus, commanding a rifle platoon, had already been wounded in a shoulder and twice been knocked flat by grenade concussions when he rose to lead three successful assaults on entrenched positions. Pressing a fourth assault, a land mine blew off his legs; he was mortally wounded. Yet, he continued to command his men.

Lummus’s commanding officer wrote this to his mother: “Jack suffered very little for he didn’t live long. I saw Jack soon after he was hit. With calmness, serenity and complacency, Jack said, ‘The New York Giants have lost a good man.’ We all lost a good man.”