I thought he'd be immortal...

I stumbled across David Bleak’s obituary and was floored. This dude is a Medal of Honor recipient which, by default, means he kicks a boatload of ass. In any event, nature was able to do what an army couldn’t: kill this man. It's a damn shame.

Bleak was a medic in the Korean War. A reconnaissance mission was scheduled and Bleak volunteered to go along in case shit went down. Well, shit did indeed go down. Here’s what happened that made him Medal of Honor worthy:

Bleak killed two of the enemy attackers with his bare hands. His bare fucking hands!! Now, maybe he choked them or something like that – I don’t know. But since I don’t know I’m just going to assume that he punched through their skulls with each fist like a comic book super hero.

Next, he killed another one of the attackers with his trench knife. He didn’t want to show off by punching completely through a third man’s head.

After that a grenade landed in his midst and he decided against eating it or crushing it into dust with his hands. Time was short so he shielded another man from the blast and saved his buddy’s life. Unfortunately he was wounded as was his comrade. Even point blank grenade blasts could only wound his leg. This is where things get crazy though: As he’s carrying his wounded mate down the hill on a bum leg, he was attacked again by two bayonet wielding enemies. Did he shoot them? Knife them? Punch them? Fuck no, he “grabbed them and smacked their heads together, then carried his helpless comrade down the hill to safety.” What!! Read that shit again. Done? Read it a third time.

HE CONKED THEIR HEADS TOGETHER LIKE MOE FROM THE THREE FUCKING STOOGES AND CONTINUED ON HIS WAY!!! WHOA!

A wise-guy eh? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk – SMASH!!