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unusual facts about Leonard A. Funk, Jr.



1979 Nahariya attack

According to Leonard A. Cole, Smadar Haran led a campaign in Israel to honor the victims of terrorism just as it does its fallen soldiers.

According to Leonard A. Cole, In 2003 Samadar Haran opposed the release of Samir Kuntar in exchange for the bodies of the 3 Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah during the 2000 Hezbollah cross-border raid, and for Elchanan Tannenbaum, the Israeli businessman and former IDF colonel who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in Dubai after being lured out of Israel under the false pretenses of a drug deal.

Jesse N. Funk

He earned the medal while serving as a stretcher bearer during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, when he and another soldier, Charles D. Barger, entered no man's land despite heavy fire and rescued two wounded officers.

He saw action in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and, by October 31, 1918, was a private first class serving as a stretcher bearer in the 354th Regiment's Company L.

Leonard A. Abercrombie

During the American Civil War he served as lieutenant colonel of Col. Henry M. Elmore's Twentieth Texas Infantry.

Leonard A. Funk, Jr.

On January 29, 1945, he was serving as a first sergeant in Company C, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division at Holzheim Belgium when he encountered a group of more than 80 German soldiers, most of whom had previously been captured by American forces but, with the help of a German patrol, had managed to overwhelm their guards.

Leonard A. Payne

Leonard Allan Payne died on 18 February 1919 while serving with the Army of Occupation in Germany.

Robert Funk

Robert A. Funk, founder and CEO of Express Employment Professionals

Trinitarian formula

Biblical scholars from the controversial Jesus Seminar, a group of textual critics (including figures like Robert W. Funk, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Bruce D. Chilton, and John S. Kloppenborg), have said that the whole of Matthew chapter 28 is the result of later editorial work on the Gospels and was never uttered by Jesus or his immediate disciples.

UU Bar Ranch

The ranch is a key point of contention in a recent lawsuit filed against Express Employment Professionals founder Bob Funk, who purchased the ranch in March 2006 for $85.5 million.


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