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We Are All Jews – Sgt. Roddie Edmonds
Defied The Nazi's Order
Roddie Edmonds was a U.S. Army Master Sergeant who put his life on the line in a German POW camp to protect the Jewish soldiers under his command.
Roddie was a devout Christian from Tennessee who enlisted in the army in 1941 and was sent overseas. In 1944 he fought at the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive campaign of the war. At that battle, Roddie and over a thousand of his men were captured and sent to a German POW camp, Stalag IX-A. In the camp, he was the senior noncommissioned officer and was responsible for 1275 American POWs.
On their first day at Stalag IX-A, the German commandant told Roddie that the next morning, all the Jewish soldiers should assemble outside their barracks. Roddie had heard rumors that European Jews were being sent to death camps, and he was determined to protect the Jewish servicemen under his command. Instead of following the Nazi’s orders, Roddie issued his own: ALL 1275 American POWs would assemble outside the barracks in the morning.
The next day, when the Nazi officer saw that all the soldiers were outside, he angrily demanded that Roddie identify the Jews. Roddie told his men that they would not obey the order. Then he turned to the commander and said, “We are all Jews here.”
Furious, the Nazi officer took out his pistol and threatened to shoot Roddie. “They cannot all be Jews!” he said, insisting again that Roddie identify the Jewish soldiers.
Even with a gun to his head, Roddie did not back down.
“WE ARE ALL JEWS,” he repeated. “If you shoot me, you’ll have to shoot all of us and after the war, you’ll be tried for war crimes.”
The Nazi backed down and the 200 Jewish soldiers in the group remained with their comrades until they were liberated.
Incredibly, Roddie never told anybody about his wartime heroism.
It wasn’t until long after Roddie’s death in 1985 that the story came out. His children, curious about their father’s wartime experiences, started reading the diary he’d kept in Stalag IX-A. Mostly it contained the names and addresses of the soldiers under his command.
Roddie’s son Chris started searching the names online and found an old article about Lester Tanner, who became a prominent lawyer in New York. In the article, Tanner said that he and many other Jewish soldiers owed their lives to Sergeant Roddie Edmonds. Amazed, Chris contacted other soldiers from Roddie’s unit, and pieced together the story of his father’s stubborn heroism in Stalag IX-A.
In 2015, Roddie Edmonds was honored by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. 26,000 non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust have been so honored, but Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is the only U.S. serviceman on that list.
For bravely defying the orders of a Nazi officer to protect the Jewish soldiers in his care, we honor Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds as this week’s Thursday Hero.
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Everglades Ape Pestering Family

August 18, 1971 Palm Beach Post
FORT LAUDERDALE TAP - The grunting and groaning of the Everglades Ape" has been keeping the Scarpulla famaly awake at night"People think we're all nuts or something." Gladys Scar- pulla said "I don't know what the animal is but it sure makes a lot of noise."
The 42-year-old mother of two sons said the mysterious creature smells "like shunk cabbage" and moves "through the undergrowth, breaking limbs on the trees."
"We have to keep all the windows in our trailer closed and have the air-conditioning on if we want to sleep."
Mrs. Scarpulla added "Even then we can still hear it grunting I think it sounds like a bear, myself."
Residents of the trailer park near the Everglades west of this city formed an armed posse last Thursday after two neighborhood children said they had seen large, apelike creatures near a garbage pail in the park.
Then, on Saturday, Mrs. Robert King said she saw a 5- foot-tall "Everglades Apoon patio. and the next day reported she had been visited by a 2-foot baby ape which clawed her ankle.
Mrs. King said the large ape was "grayish, and it looked like it had sores on its body and face. She added the ani-mal had extremely long arms and fingers, very large feet. and "teeth like a dog."
The baby ape was reddish brown in color, and when Mrs. King tried to stroke it, she said, the little animal clawed her ankle and ran into the bushes.
She said both animals re-sembled pictures of an orangutan which she found in her encyclopedia.Broward County rabies control officer Henry Ring has been organizing stakeouts to try and find the creatures, but he said crowds of curious sightseers made a serious search impossible.
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In 1996 at Brookfield Zoo, a gorilla named Binti Jua carried a 3-year-old boy to safety after he fell into her enclosure. Binti gently picked up the unconscious child and carried him—while her own baby clung to her back—to a door where rescuers could reach him.
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Shoshone called them "Tswahawbitts" Cannibal Giants
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Cryptid of the Day: Man-Dragon
Description: In 1926, farmers around the Xiaon Te Dam in southeastern China reported seeing a winged figure flying through the skies, which they called “Man-Dragon”. Shortly after, the dam collapsed, killing 15000 people. Many think the Man-Dragon was a dark omen.
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Ape-men, 8 Feet Tall, With Hairy Bodies Like Bears, Seen in Rocky Mountains
The Wellsboro Gazette (PA), September 25, 1924
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If Israel falls who will be left to stand against the dozens of Pseudo-Islamist countries trying to enslave the world ... Europe has just about fallen without raising a hand to stop them ... Africa is being overrun and SE Asia has become the largest P-Islam country ... How much longer 'til America falls ...
... especially with it's Nazicrat and Goebbels Media 5th Column ...
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by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
Witness testimony continued this week in the wrongful death trial of Grace Schara, a 19-year-old with Down syndrome who died in a Wisconsin hospital days after being admitted for a COVID-19 infection. Grace’s sister and expert witnesses testified that doctors violated the standard of care and principles of informed consent.
Grace’s family sued Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital in April 2023 and filed an amended complaint in July 2023, alleging the hospital’s COVID-19 treatment protocols directly resulted in Grace’s death in October 2021, a week after admission.
The trial began last week at the State of Wisconsin Circuit Court for Outagamie County. The lawsuit names several defendants, including some Ascension doctors and nurses and the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Family Compensation Fund.
Grace’s older sister, Jessica Vander Heiden, testified Tuesday that she was unaware that the hospital had placed a “do not resuscitate” (DNR) order in Grace’s chart until shortly before her death and that, in Grace’s final moments, hospital staff refused to intervene and did not honor her family’s repeated requests to revoke the DNR.
Expert witnesses for the plaintiffs testified that there were multiple violations of the standard of care by Ascension doctors and nurses.
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(Crowley Post-Signal, 12/19/1906)
STRANGE MONSTER SCARES CITIZENS. WEIRD BABOON-LIKE CREATURE SEEN NEAR DARBY, PA.
MAY BE PRACTICAL JOKE
Belated Wayfarer of Delaware County Frightened by Mysterious Thing and Many Residents Are Arming Themselves.
Darby, Pa-All Delaware county is stirred up over the supposed antics of an alleged wild animal which is as serted to look like a gorilla and to have frightened belated wayfarers al- most out of their wits in various parts of the county. While it is believed by most persons that the whole thing is a practical joke on the part of some one who is literally making a monkey out of himself, still many of the more timid class are thoroughly alarmed and fully believe all the tales that are told about the mysterious creature. Those professing to have seen the wonderful animal, assert that it some- times goes upright ilke a man and then dashes along on all fours with marvellous speed, maintaining a queer galloping gait. They furthermore feel certain that it has a coat of dark hair, but that is not considered re- markable, as the weather is cool. Their stories of how they almost en- countered the strange beast have been so thrilling that many of the negroes in the county cannot be induced to fully suggested that the animal down by Darby is probably a monkey of na- tive Delaware county stock. Nevertheless, several persons in Springfield township are so convinced that there is a strange animal prowl- Ing about that they have set traps for It. Frank Carr is one of them, and he set a number of traps in an enclosure in the rear of his house near some woods where the reputed creaers by pass the spots where it is said to have been seen. Others have purchased pistols and go about armed, fully resolved to sell their lives dearly should they encounter the mythical monster in any of its hypothetical haunts. Others take the thing seriously without being unduly alarmed and they try to explain the matter. That it is an ape escaped from some zoological col- lection is the most commonly accepted theory. This was strengthened by a rumor that the authorities of the Zoological Gardens of Philadelphia were out looking for a lost Simian in Delaware county. But a telephone message to the zoo exploded the story. All the Philadelphia monkeys are safe. It is now stated that the traps were found broken, the bait devoured and all evidences on hand of a struggle made by some animal. The practical Joker who is working the scare, if such is the case, has succeeded to an extent which may work his own harm. For there are a number of Delaware county citizens who, while not getting in hysteries about the matter, have quietly placed big guns in their hip pockets and are waiting for a chance to pot anything that looks like a baboon.
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