Posted on 12/05/2014 1:57:34 AM PST by marktwain
District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona will preside over a hearing for the motion for summary judgment on March 5, 2015.The Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) have one of the most restrictive gun control laws of any jurisdiction in the territories of the United States. Only the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have laws that might be considered as strict.
Anticipating an unfavorable ruling from the federal court, Deleon Guerrero and Zarones have asked the Legislature to act swiftly without hesitation in passing an alternative gun control law.
My dad remembers a day when he could rake the jungle with his .30 cal or his Thompson on Saipan.
I understand that it was a very tough fight.
The marines really took a beating the first two weeks. They were abandoned by the Navy when they were drawn off. Then the biggest banzai charge of the war came after them. My dad wasn’t on the island until the third week. One story he told me was going into the jungle with 27 one day and only coming out with five others.
The Japanese used to really chop up the US servicemen into small bits.
My dad and pretty much everyone else thought that Mexican guy who took prisoners (and recently received the MOH) for it, was a real prick for doing it.
To be fair, some Japanese surrendered to my Dad after much of the fighting was over and he was running supply operations. At that point, he pretty much was over all the killing.
The Japanese wanted to make sure they were not surrendering to a Marine.
He received no recognition for it and might say was punished for it.
One of the two officers attended USC.
I am glad that you have told a small part of your father’s story here. So much of the last 75 years of heros have been forsaken and downplayed by the old media, and they are going fast.
I am still mad at how my friend, Tex, received virtually no recognition in the old media when he passed, and he was an incredible hero. Do nothing *actors* and lip syncing *singers* were considered far more newsworthy. I need to write more of his stories.
I often think that he was the role model for Matt Helm in the series of novels.
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