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So I've recently came across the story of Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore, and I have to say I'm incredibly touched and angry.
If you didn't know those two. Wright and Moore were medics from the 101st Airborne division, nicknamed: screaming eagles, of the US army during WW2. as the story goes both medics landed in a church inside a small village called Angoville Au Plain in France during D-Day. The medics quickly established a medical outpost inside the church, which they hung flags with red crosses outside to mark the building.
After a while the battle for the village started, and soon, large amounts of men from the American side started comming in to get their wounds treated. They did their job as medics and tended to the wounded but what makes this story truely heartwarming is that it's not just American soldiers they were helping with injuries, but also soldiers from the German wehrmact as well.
Robert Wright would also grab a wheelbarrel to go outside the building to pick up soldiers who are too wounded to get to the church themselves evading gunfire and grenades as they do so, but after getting noticed by some of the soldiers, a temporary ceasefire will emerge following the sight of one of the two medics.
The 101st were eventually pushed out of the village, and in danger of being overrun, the two medics received orders to retreat and take the wounded American soldiers but leaving the German ones behind. Much to their commanding officer's surprise though, both medics did not want to leave the church. The village eventually got overrun by the Wehrmact and a german commander paid a visit to the church the two medics were in. The commander saw the wounded american and german soldiers on the church floor and benches, and was so touched of their actions that ordered his men to help the two medics and gave them some much needed medical supplies.
After a while, the screaming eagles came back to take the village and pushed the germans to retreat again. At this point there were so many injured soldiers inside the church that some even just sat on the floor and the most wounded were moved to the front.
As the battle raged on outside the church a Mortar shell broke through the window, smashed a tile on the floor, and rolled, seemingly unexploded. People say this was a stroke of luck, but for me It's definitely divine intervention. Kenneth Moore picked up the unexploded shell and threw it back outside. When the two medics finally got the relief of trucks to carry the wounded away from the church, the two men had saved the lives of 80 American and German soldiers and later the two medics survived the battle, and the war.
Robert Wright passed away in 2013 but not before wanting to be buried in the same church that he stood his ground on. His ashes eventually made their way to france and was buried inside the Angoville Au Plain Church. The church even has beautiful stained windows that depicted that beautiful moment where humanity outshone the horrors of war.
I'm incredibly touched by this story and angry. Why? Because i know Hollywood will never make a movie about this incredible moment. The reason? They love to portray the germans of ww2 as sadistic, power hungry animals. I do really hope this story get immortalized into a movie like Hacksaw Ridge.
Here's a video from Yarnhub if y'all want to see the full story in very clear detail.
If you didn't know those two. Wright and Moore were medics from the 101st Airborne division, nicknamed: screaming eagles, of the US army during WW2. as the story goes both medics landed in a church inside a small village called Angoville Au Plain in France during D-Day. The medics quickly established a medical outpost inside the church, which they hung flags with red crosses outside to mark the building.
After a while the battle for the village started, and soon, large amounts of men from the American side started comming in to get their wounds treated. They did their job as medics and tended to the wounded but what makes this story truely heartwarming is that it's not just American soldiers they were helping with injuries, but also soldiers from the German wehrmact as well.
Robert Wright would also grab a wheelbarrel to go outside the building to pick up soldiers who are too wounded to get to the church themselves evading gunfire and grenades as they do so, but after getting noticed by some of the soldiers, a temporary ceasefire will emerge following the sight of one of the two medics.
The 101st were eventually pushed out of the village, and in danger of being overrun, the two medics received orders to retreat and take the wounded American soldiers but leaving the German ones behind. Much to their commanding officer's surprise though, both medics did not want to leave the church. The village eventually got overrun by the Wehrmact and a german commander paid a visit to the church the two medics were in. The commander saw the wounded american and german soldiers on the church floor and benches, and was so touched of their actions that ordered his men to help the two medics and gave them some much needed medical supplies.
After a while, the screaming eagles came back to take the village and pushed the germans to retreat again. At this point there were so many injured soldiers inside the church that some even just sat on the floor and the most wounded were moved to the front.
As the battle raged on outside the church a Mortar shell broke through the window, smashed a tile on the floor, and rolled, seemingly unexploded. People say this was a stroke of luck, but for me It's definitely divine intervention. Kenneth Moore picked up the unexploded shell and threw it back outside. When the two medics finally got the relief of trucks to carry the wounded away from the church, the two men had saved the lives of 80 American and German soldiers and later the two medics survived the battle, and the war.
Robert Wright passed away in 2013 but not before wanting to be buried in the same church that he stood his ground on. His ashes eventually made their way to france and was buried inside the Angoville Au Plain Church. The church even has beautiful stained windows that depicted that beautiful moment where humanity outshone the horrors of war.
I'm incredibly touched by this story and angry. Why? Because i know Hollywood will never make a movie about this incredible moment. The reason? They love to portray the germans of ww2 as sadistic, power hungry animals. I do really hope this story get immortalized into a movie like Hacksaw Ridge.
Here's a video from Yarnhub if y'all want to see the full story in very clear detail.
