![]() ![]() Woody’s brother, William Gerald Williams took two bullets during the Battle of the Bulge and survived. ![]() Both were products of rural America, raised on farms.Įach had a brother in service. Walt’s brother Roland Ehlers never made it to shore on Omaha Beach and was killed when his landing transport took a direct hit from a German shell. Harding was President of the United States, one in 1921 and the other in 1923. Williams is still going strong with a passion for life greater than most men 20 or 30 years his junior.īoth were born when Warren G. Ehlers has since passed in February of 2014 and Mr. Walter Ehlers became the Godfather to our daughter. I got to know both of them as friends spending many other occasions with them. Parts of the trips were surreal, others humorous and always thought provoking. In both cases, making a journey with them back to the actual locations where their Medal of Honor actions took place. I traveled with Walter Ehlers to the 60 th anniversary of D-Day in France and with Woody Williams to the 73rd anniversary of Iwo Jima. Let's get to the real American Hero Stories. island of Guam from the Japanese before hitting the beach on Iwo Jima in 1945. The other hero, Hershel “Woody” Williams was a 21-year-old Marine Corporal who had already battled to retake the U.S. By the time he got to Omaha Beach in June of 1944 it was his third invasion. Places well known to all patriotic Americans. These places were Iwo Jima, Omaha Beach and the hedgerows of Normandy, France. I have experienced the honor of traveling with two World War II Medal of Honor heroes overseas to places where they fought, bled and emerged as victors. Today, most Americans never get the chance to shake hands with one of the 69 living Medal of Honor recipients and learn the American Hero Stories. Lee and learn their real American Hero stories. Imagine if you could travel back in time with Davy Crockett or William Barrett Travis to the Alamo, return to the combat zone of Yorktown with George Washington or walk the battlefield of Gettysburg with Joshua Chamberlain or Robert E. Co-Founder and Chairman of State Funeral for World War II Veterans ![]()
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