Stanley!
I got the story and copied it here in less than 15 seconds. You refuse to
do that. How dare you criticize others. The story in text form is at the
bottom of the message. - Others skip my repremand of SB and the tutorial
of how to find stuff using search with a Browser. The story is at the end.
Stanley, don't put others down. You are the one that cannot use
http://google.com and do a search for the page of the article, then copy
the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page and send it to us.
If you would do a small amount of work, it would SAVE EVERYONE on the list
from doing the work you fail to do. You are wasting our time - each one of
us.
Here is how to search:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Search-with-the-Internet-Explorer-9-Address-bar
Here are my results from a search on some of the key words - LOTS of free
sites that have the story:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=aaron+heller+associated+press+roddie+edmonds
Here is the story from AP:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_AMERICAN_HOLOCAUST_HERO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
News from The Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish
American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers
in arms and sent to an uncertain fate.
But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the
highest-ranking noncommissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he
ordered more than 1,000 Americans captives to step forward with him and
brazenly pronounced: "We are all Jews here."
He would not waver, even with a pistol to his head, and his captors
eventually backed down.
Seventy years later, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native is being posthumously
recognized with Israel's highest honor for non-Jews who risked their lives
to save Jews during World War II. He's the first American serviceman to
earn the honor.
"Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds seemed like an ordinary American soldier, but
he had an extraordinary sense of responsibility and dedication to his
fellow human beings," said Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem
Holocaust museum and memorial. "The choices and actions of Master Sgt.
Edmonds set an example for his fellow American soldiers as they stood
united against the barbaric evil of the Nazis."
It's a story that remained untold for decades and one that his son, the
Rev. Chris Edmonds, only discovered long after his father's death in 1985.
Edmonds was captured with thousands of others in the Battle of the Bulge in
late 1944 and spent 100 days in captivity. His son vaguely knew about his
father's past from a pair of diaries Edmonds kept in captivity that
included the names and addresses of his men and some of his daily thoughts.
But it was only while scouring the Internet a few years ago that he began
to unravel the true drama that had unfolded - oddly enough, when he read a
newspaper article about Richard Nixon's post-presidency search for a New
York home. As it happened, Nixon purchased his exclusive upper East Side
town house from Lester Tanner, a prominent New York lawyer who mentioned in
passing how Edmonds had saved him and dozens of other Jews during the war.
That sparked a search for Tanner, who along with another Jewish POW, Paul
Stern, told the younger Edmonds what they witnessed on Jan. 27, 1945, at
the Stalag IXA POW camp near Ziegenhain, Germany.
The Wehrmacht had a strict anti-Jew policy and segregated Jewish POWs from
non-Jews. On the eastern front, captured Jewish soldiers in the Russian
army had been sent to extermination camps.
At the time of Edmonds' capture, the most infamous Nazi death camps were no
longer fully operational, so Jewish American POWs were instead sent to
slave labor camps where their chances of survival were low. U.S. soldiers
had been warned that Jewish fighters among them would be in danger if
captured and were told to destroy dog tags or any other evidence
identifying them as Jewish.
So when the German camp commander, speaking in English, ordered the Jews to
identify themselves, Edmonds knew what was at stake.
Turning to the rest of the POWs, he said: "We are not doing that, we are
all falling out," recalled Chris Edmonds, who is currently in Israel
participating in a seminar for Christian leaders at Yad Vashem's
International School for Holocaust Studies.
With all the camp's inmates defiantly standing in front of their barracks,
the German commander turned to Edmonds and said: "They cannot all be Jews."
To which Edmonds replied: "We are all Jews here."
Then the Nazi officer pressed his pistol to Edmonds head and offered him
one last chance. Edmonds merely gave him his name, rank and serial number
as required by the Geneva Conventions.
"And then my dad said: 'If you are going to shoot, you are going to have to
shoot all of us because we know who you are and you'll be tried for war
crimes when we win this war,'" recalled Chris Edmonds, who estimates his
father's actions saved the lives of more than 200 Jewish-American soldiers.
Witnesses to the exchange said the German officer then withdrew. Stern, who
currently lives in Reston, Virginia, told Yad Vashem that even 70 years
later he can "still hear the words."
About 6 million European Jews were killed by German Nazis and their
collaborators during World War II. The names of those honored for risking
their lives to protect Jews are engraved along an avenue of trees at the
Jerusalem memorial.
More than 26,000 have been designated "Righteous Among the Nations," the
most famous being Oskar Schindler, whose efforts to save more than 1,000
Jews were documented in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List,"
and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who is credited for having saved
at least 20,000 Jews before mysteriously disappearing.
But prior to Edmonds, only four were Americans, who belonged to the clergy
or volunteered for rescue groups. He's the first serviceman and the first
whose actions saved the lives of fellow Americans. A ceremony for Edmonds
is planned next year. And, thanks to his son's efforts, Edmonds is now also
being considered for a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Irena Steinfeldt, the director of the Holocaust memorial's Righteous Among
the Nations department, said all rescue stories were unique. She said
Edmonds actions were reflective of those of a military man, who was
prepared to take a quick, clear, moral decision.
"It's a matter of five minutes and that is it. When he tells the German,
'No,' that is something that can kill him," she explained. "It is something
very dangerous that is happening in one moment. ... But it is very heroic."
Chris Edmonds, who leads a Baptist congregation in Maryville, Tennessee,
said he believed his father had a "deep moral conviction" instilled in his
faith that inspired his actions.
"All he had to fight with was his will power and his wits," he said. "I'm
just glad he did the right thing."
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