{"id":9809,"date":"2015-12-02T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2015-12-02T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:21:36","slug":"israel-honors-gi-who-told-the-nazis-we-are-all-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/02\/israel-honors-gi-who-told-the-nazis-we-are-all-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel honors GI who told the Nazis, \u2018We are all Jews\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<hgroup>\n<h2 class=\"underline\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9810\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/israel.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"israel\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"underline\" style=\"text-align:center;\">US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who died in 1985, led over 1,000 POWs in refusing to deliver Jewish comrades to German captors<\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n<h2 class=\"underline\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that. As the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer held in the German POW camp, he ordered more than 1,000 Americans captives to step forward with him and brazenly pronounced: \u201cWe are all Jews here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He would not waver, even with a pistol to his head, and his captors eventually backed down.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy years later, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native is being posthumously recognized with Israel\u2019s highest honor for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II. He\u2019s the first American serviceman to earn the honor.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-honors-us-gi-who-told-the-nazis-we-are-all-jews\/\"> Times of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who died in 1985, led over 1,000 POWs in refusing to deliver Jewish comrades to German captors 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&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1247,3176,1286,1860,1899],"tags":[3175,3177,3178,3179,3122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}