James Hoyt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American soldier
Date of Birth: 16-May-1925
Place of Birth: Oxford, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 11-Aug-2008
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About James Hoyt
- James Francis Hoyt (May 16, 1925 – August 11, 2008) was one of the four American soldiers who discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- According to military records, Hoyt, then a private first class, was part of a group of four members of the 6th Armored Division, who were the first Americans to discover Buchenwald on April 11, 1945.The four original liberators were Capt.
- Frederic Keffer, Tech.
- Sgt.
- Herbert Gottschalk, Sgt.
- Harry Ward and Hoyt, a private first class. His son, John, said the family has been touched by it all.
- He said he's even followed blogs of Holocaust deniers after his father's death. "Some of the dissent was most interesting", he said. "I'm not saying my dad was a hero to every person in the world, but I'm saying he certainly had a heroic approach and outlook, and definitely went above and beyond a person's call of duty to understand the atrocities of war", James son explained after his father's death. "They say all's fair in love and war.
- Well, some of these things weren't so fair, especially if you were a member of an ethnic group or cultural group that didn't suit the people of power.
- You were scheduled to be obliterated.
- And that's not OK.
- That's not what democracy and freedom is all about." His father suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder up until the day he died; he only began getting help in the 1990s. "His whole life, he had fitful dreams", John Hoyt said. As a warrior who had seen the horrors of war, he opposed the invasion of Iraq, his son said.
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