Posted on 03/01/2019 8:03:37 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
DANG!
I’ll take the runner’s word about a gruesome injury.
I really don’t need to look at the photograph.
It ain’t pretty son!
Drink and Glide
https://youtu.be/PlpWWxpBbMs
Comfrey and arnica, plus red light therapy. Wouldnt get him racing next day but would help with pain and really speed up the healing process.
High School, about 1977. While walking up to start the half-mile run, I noticed a spike was missing from my left shoe. I ran the race. The uneven pressure on my foot left a silver dollar sized blister the sole behind the big toe. When my thick callused skin finally peeled back, it looked much like that picture.
That was no ordinary Marine, that was John Basilone, whose story was featured in "The Pacific".
The agony of victory.
Just reading the headline made the sole of my right foot feel cold and numb. Sometimes I imagine things too well.
Winning!
The agony of victory.
No no, its the agony of defeet. Get it? De feet?
I was once playing tennis and I simultaneously broke my shoelace in two spots. I finished the set by taking off my shoes and socks. My foot didn’t look that bad, but I limped around for a week.
Not worth it.
That’s bad. But I was a pole vaulter in highschool and my hands would get chewed up. Try sliding down 10 feet of carbon fiber on a missed vault..
that is gnarly!
gonna be limping for a day or two, I bet.
That was Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone of Buffalo, NY.
During the battle for Henderson Field on Guadalcanal GS Basilone and two other Marines used machine guns to beat back a far superior Japanese force. Basilones hands were severely burned from holding the hot barrel of the mg as he moved from position to position as needed.
He was awarded the CMOH for his actions during the battle.
Gunnery Sergeant Basilone was killed on the first day of the invasion of Iwo Jima after singlehandedly taking out a Japanese fortified position and guiding a Marine tank through a mine field while under fire.
For his bravery on Iwo Jima he was awarded the Navy Cross.
Gunnery Sergeant Basilone was the only enlisted Marine to be awarded both the CMOH and Navy Cross during WW2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Basilone
I distinctly recall that squeaking sound of my handrprints being polished off.
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