The Few, the Proud -
Feb 23, 2021 18:36:51 #
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The Few, the Proud — Iwo Jima
On 23 February 1945, six Marines, with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Division, raised our American f**g atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The f**g on the 546-foot dormant volcanic cone at the southern tip of the island, could be seen for a great distance, and was an inspiration for our Marines and Sailors. Three of the six Marines pictured, Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley, were k**led in action before the battle concluded on 26 March.
There were 6,871 Americans k**led and 19,217 wounded on Iwo Jima. The Medal of Honor was awarded to 22 Marines and five Sailors, 14 of them posthumously (13 Marines, one Sailor). Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, noted of the Americans on Iwo, “uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
Joe Rosenthal’s iconic image was of the second f**g raised that day, a 96-by-56–inch f**g to replace the 54-by-28-inch f**g raised hours earlier, and that image is inspiration for the Marine Corps War Memorial outside the Ord-Weitzel Gate to Arlington National Cemetery. Both f**gs can now be seen in the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Marine Corp Base, Quantico.
The major conflicts against 20th century tyrants cost 616,124 American lives and 1,120,283 wounded, in bloody theaters of warfare – one battle at a time. Too many Americans now have no concept of the price of Liberty bequeathed to them – the price of freedom many arrogantly squander today. Ignorance is bliss – until it is not… In 1940, Winston Churchill observed, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Indeed.
The Few, the Proud — Iwo Jima
On 23 February 1945, six Marines, with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Division, raised our American f**g atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The f**g on the 546-foot dormant volcanic cone at the southern tip of the island, could be seen for a great distance, and was an inspiration for our Marines and Sailors. Three of the six Marines pictured, Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley, were k**led in action before the battle concluded on 26 March.
There were 6,871 Americans k**led and 19,217 wounded on Iwo Jima. The Medal of Honor was awarded to 22 Marines and five Sailors, 14 of them posthumously (13 Marines, one Sailor). Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, noted of the Americans on Iwo, “uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
Joe Rosenthal’s iconic image was of the second f**g raised that day, a 96-by-56–inch f**g to replace the 54-by-28-inch f**g raised hours earlier, and that image is inspiration for the Marine Corps War Memorial outside the Ord-Weitzel Gate to Arlington National Cemetery. Both f**gs can now be seen in the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Marine Corp Base, Quantico.
The major conflicts against 20th century tyrants cost 616,124 American lives and 1,120,283 wounded, in bloody theaters of warfare – one battle at a time. Too many Americans now have no concept of the price of Liberty bequeathed to them – the price of freedom many arrogantly squander today. Ignorance is bliss – until it is not… In 1940, Winston Churchill observed, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Indeed.
Feb 23, 2021 21:36:21 #
LogicallyRight
Loc: Chicago
AuntiE wrote:
And now they don't teach history in our public schools. They indoctrinate our kids into the tenets of Socialism.
And what has been the result. Brain dead kids running amok, burning and l**ting and k*****g and attacking our Police. They go after statues of Columbus, Washington, Lincoln. Some day it will be Patton, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Nimitz. But they want a statue for a poet. And they have a statue of Tolstoy in Seattle. You get what you breed, and let others educate. Or not.
Feb 24, 2021 08:16:31 #
Nutter
Loc: Fly Over Zone
Ira Hays an American Indian was among the group that took Iwo Jima.
Jack Thurman who is alive and lives in Loveland Colorado wrote a book on the taking of Iwo Jima
Jack Thurman who is alive and lives in Loveland Colorado wrote a book on the taking of Iwo Jima
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