I don’t think most of those Marines fought so their great grandkids would be speaking Spanish. Invasion by Japs or illegals the result is the same, an end to American culture
I hear Obama is contemplating shipping the memorial back to Iwo Jima. For that matter, he can raise the Arizona and give that to the Japs for their WW II memorial.
I had the honor, one Marine Corps birthday ball, to sit with an Iwo Marine as well as an Inchon Marine. They were outstanding individuals who went through hell on Earth. The Iwo Marine told me he could still smell the bullets that went by him on that tiny island.
Thank you for the reminder. My dad, who died 5 years ago at the age of 97, served those young marines as a Navy doctor.
At his funeral, one of the men who served with him told us that Dad was responsible for saving many hundreds of lives. I have always been as proud as possible, and Dad’s 5 children, 12 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren, and 6 great-great grandchildren are being taught about Iwo Jima and the great sacrifice made on their behalf.
Near the end of his life, from page 356 ... Puller wrote ... "Americans had better wake up, fast. It might be possible to bomb our country into submission, unless we have strong leaders."
At the local Marine Corps Birthday Balls here in Sacramento I met an Iwo veteran Marine that was 15 years old when he was discharged at the end of he war! He had lied and entered the Marines when he was just 12 years old. A really nice guy he was popular among the other WWII Marines.
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon St. Crispin’s Day.
Henry V
act 4, scene 3