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From Butte to Iwo Jima

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05 October 2012, 13:00
SR4759
From Butte to Iwo Jima
From Butte to Iwo Jima
09 October 2012, 04:04
SmokinJ
SR4759

I really enjoy the true WWII stories that you find and post here. Thanks
24 December 2012, 10:50
Anjin
Awfully impressive. For anyone to survive so many island invasions is just sheer damn luck.

I once worked for a CEO (effectively, owner of his company) who claimed to have participated in several of those. BS. His friends told me he served as a cook on one of the ships.

I've had other acquaintances who landed on Tarawa, Okinawa and Hiroshima (not fun) and who were attacked by kamikazi planes on their ships.

Nowadays, I interact with members of the Japan Self Defense Force, as do members of the US Navy and diplomatic corps. What a strange world. Our enemies are not the same anymore, sixty years later. Merry Christmas.


Norman Solberg
International lawyer back in the US after 25 years and, having met a few of the bad guys and governments here and around the world, now focusing on private trusts that protect wealth from them. NRA Life Member for 50 years, NRA Endowment Member from 2014, NRA Patron from 2016.
24 December 2012, 20:12
SR4759
Yes the world changes and eventually sanity prevails but sometimes it is way too painful and costly to get there.
27 January 2013, 08:13
Brice
Thank you, SR.
My uncle, Bill Hendricks, just a kid private, took a sniper's bullet through the upper spine on Okinawa. His life after that was pain and misery. The very least we can do is learn about and acknowledge the sacrifices made by these men.
Brice