Saturday, February 9, 2019

Wow. THE AMAZING STORY OF HOW “ROCKY” VERSACE EARNED A MEDAL OF HONOR AS A POW

Another Someone You Should Know story.

Read it at the source, which is a website titled "Today I found Out".  You can subscribe there also.  I find most of their emailed offerings darned interesting.


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  1. Did you hear the snap of my heart breaking when I came to the part of his being executed? WHAT A GUY! What an amazing, optimistic, insistent, persistent, horrible guy to have as a POW :-) I hate that they won in the end, but we win for having heard of him at all. Thanks, Kid, good to know people like this exist. WHAT A REAL MAN...what a goofball singing like that for so long! The only good thing about his dying is no wife had to put up with his personality and maybe have a kid just like him! HAAA!!!

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    1. I did hear that Z. Yes, as far as I know he didn't have a wife and family. If he did, I suspect he'd have prepared her/them for it before he left.

      There probably a few guys like this around but not many, and I wonder how many more will come when it becomes so obvious the feds abuse them so much.

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  2. This fellow was one hell of a soldier. He’s someone who I would have liked to have a beer with. I may have to snatch what we know of Captain Versace for a post at Fix Bayonets in the future. Thanks, Kid, for alerting me to this story.

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    1. I'd love to buy the beers Mustang. You may find more about this gentleman on a search, but that site does a pretty good job of fleshing out the details.

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  3. What a sad ending to such a beautiful life.... thanks.

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    1. Bunk, I'm a 'celebrate someone's life' kinda person when they pass and in that spirit, let's celebrate him. So many great people leave us far too early.

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  4. I'm glad this remarkable guy is getting better known s he can clear the name Versace.

    Everytime of I think of the hideous specacle fashion mogul GIANNI VERSACE >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versace< has made of the name I feel like cringing in embarrassment for being part of the samespcies as he.

    Looking at DONATELA VERSACE >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatella_Versace< longtime excutive and current boss of the outfit makes me want to throw up.

    Thank you, Kid, for telling us about ROCKY –– a wonderful man every decent person on earth should have been proud to know.

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