This past weekend for many of us was filled with summer houses, solo cups, bikinis and bong rips. A celebration? Mourning? Who knows. But the reason we're able to miss work/school on Monday and drink our faces off all weekend is because of the men and women who have sacrificed their lives for generations in order to give us the right to do so. Meet Young Bussey.
Young Bussey was QB1 for the LSU Tigers in 1937 and 1938. He led the team in passing and rushing all the while continuing his milk route to provide for his family. Bussey was terrorizing D's, laying the D, delivering Vitamin D, and getting straight As to graduate with a degree in petroleum engineering. He went on to be drafted by the Chicago Bears.
In his one year as a professional, Bussey played both sides of the ball, was selected to the All-Star game, and helped the Bears to a championship win over the Giants. The final game of the season was December 7th, 1941. The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Legend has it that's when Young Bussey decided to enlist in the Navy.
Young Bussey soon became Lieutenant Bussey. He fought in the Battles of Guam, Kwajalein, Peleliu, Leyte, and Luzon. Young Bussey sacrificed his life in the Battle of Lingayen Gulf at the age of 27. A Japanese mortar struck his landing craft and his bodied was never recovered.
Young Bussey's biography Young Bussey Young Stud: An All-American Legend by Ralph B. Cushman is availible on Amazon.
So I hope you enjoyed your beer this weekend, enjoyed the sun, enjoyed the beach. Just remember the American badasses that couldn't to make sure that you could.
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