Everyday Patriot

  General Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Abilene, Kansas, on October 4, 1890. He graduated from Abilene High School in 1909. After high school, he worked at a creamery to contribute to his brother's college tuition for more than a year before receiving an appointment to West Point in 1911. He graduated from West Point in 1915. During World War I, he commanded a tank training center at Camp Colt and, in 1922, was in the Panama Canal Zone with General Fox Conner. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, in 1926 and then reported and toured for the War Department until 1929. In 1933, he became General Douglas MacArthur's aide. At the beginning of World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower became the Chief of Staff of the Third Army and, later, in 1942, the Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces, commanding Operation Torch and D-Day. He was also the governor of the US Occupied Zone. After he retired from active service, General Dwight D. Eisen...

  Corporal Tibor Rubin was born on June 18, 1929, in Paszto, Hungary. In March 1944, when Nazi forces began their occupation of Hungary, his parents unsuccessfully tried to send him to Switzerland to avoid imprisonment. However, he was captured and sent to the Mauthausen Concentration camp. Corporal Tibor Rubin was liberated by American forces on May 5, 1945. Unfortunately, his father, stepmother, and youngest sister all died in Nazi camps. He emigrated to the Los Angeles area in May 1948 and worked as a butcher until February 1950, when he entered the US Army. Corporal Tibor Rubin trained as a rifleman and deployed to Korea with the 1st Cavalry Division. On October 30, 1950, with his unit overwhelmed, Corporal Rubin singlehandedly defended the Raegu-Pusan road for 24 hours so that his unit could withdraw. Eventually, on November 2, 1950, Corporal Rubin was severely injured and captured by the Chinese. He would spend the next 30 months as a prisoner of war.  During his impris...

  First Lieutenant James Robert Kalsu was born on April 13, 1945, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He graduated in 1963 from Del City High School and the University of Oklahoma in 1967. He was a noted football player throughout high school and college. He was named All-American in 1967 and was drafted in 1967 by the Buffalo Bills. First Lieutenant James Robert Kalsu earned the title "Rookie of the Year" in 1968. He was also a member of the ROTC in college and, after the 1968 season, began active duty with the US Army. First Lieutenant Kalsu deployed to South Vietnam in November 1969. He would die during his service on July 21, 1970, from heavy artillery fire during the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord. First Lieutenant James Robert Kalsu rests at the Resthaven Garden Cemetery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. * Read about a.d. elliott's Everyday Patriot Project here* **************************************** a.d. elliott is a wanderer, photographer, and storyteller currently livin...