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They Fought For Us – Now It's Our Turn

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 5/29/2023 1:57:36 AM

As a Marine with four years to go until retirement in 1994, I disembarked with others from the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) onto a landing craft waiting to take our group about a half-mile north across the Pacific Ocean toward the Island Iwo Jima. We were there to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. As we made our way through the Pacific toward the southern edge of the island, it was all but impossible to grasp the fact that we were taking the same route, in a similar landing craft, that American troops took during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: privateer 5/29/2023 6:47:01 AM (No. 1479850)
A fine column; worthy of this day. It is both stirring and humbling.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Shells 5/29/2023 8:08:38 AM (No. 1479880)
I’m speechless. Yet motivated. This would be a perfect Must Read for today.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: minuteman 5/29/2023 8:29:28 AM (No. 1479897)
Well worth reading and thinking about.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Westie64 5/29/2023 8:51:58 AM (No. 1479917)
My father-in-law fought in those caves. Hand to hand with a long knife. He didn’t talk much about those encounters. But he came home. With the knife.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: felixcat 5/29/2023 9:54:45 AM (No. 1479967)
In honor of all those who died in combat service to their country, can we stop with the Thank you for your service. I am a Navy veteran - never saw any combat. No one needs to thank me for my service. It was my choice and peacetime. And not every person in uniform is a hero - FOX news, especially, has so overused that term that it is practically meaningless now.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Italiano 5/29/2023 1:25:26 PM (No. 1480182)
"It's our turn." Agreed, but to do what, exactly? Vote for Republicans?
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