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Passing of a patriot. (The Goodness of America).(retired United States Air Force Bigadier General Jos Foss)(Obituary)
In February of last year at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, 86-year-old Brigadier General Joe Foss (USAF, retired) was on his way to deliver a speech in New England when a security screener pulled him aside. The screener suspected that the elderly passenger might be carrying some dangerous items. The "dangerous" items were found to be a nail file, an innocuous dummy bullet with a hole drilled through it for hanging on a key chain, and what the screener perceived to be a menacing ninja throwing star. After 45 minutes of repeated searches and questioning, Foss was allowed to continue his trip, and was even permitted to keep the "throwing star"--which was actually the congressional Medal of Honor that the general had received in 1943 from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In October, General Foss, then age 87, traveled to Beaverton, Michigan, to support a great-nephew who was seeking admission to the U.S. Military Academy. He also planned to speak to students at Beaverton High School. Tragically, he suffered an apparent ruptured aneurysm the evening before the school appearance and was hospitalized in critical condition. He died on January 1,2003, at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, without regaining consciousness.
Joseph Jacob Foss was born on April 17, 1915 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. As a captain in the Marine Corps Reserve, he was executive officer of Marine Fighting Squadron 121, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, during the battle for Guadalcanal Island (the first U.S. offensive of World War II in the Pacific). As described in his Medal of Honor citation, he engaged "in almost daily combat with the enemy from 9 October to 19 November 1942," personally shooting down "23 Japanese planes" and damaging others "so severely that their destruction was extremely probable." He also "led a large number of escort missions, skillfully covering reconnaissance, bombing, and photographic planes as well as surface craft."
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