Posted on 04/28/2017 4:59:08 AM PDT by sodpoodle
So that’s the story about six nice young boys.. Three died on Iwo Jima , and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.’ Suddenly, the monument wasn’t just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless. We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom…please pray for our troops. Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also …please pray for our troops still in murderous places around the world. STOP and thank God for being alive and being free due to someone else’s sacrifice. God Bless You and God Bless America . REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it’s going to be a great day. One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is . . that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of ‘hands’ raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.
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Read the whole essay. It is beautiful.
No matter what the libtards say we must never forget that, to date, the number of nations “conceived in Liberty” is ONE.
The thing about the thirteen hands appears not to be true, but I love the reference.
I wish it were!
A few years ago when my husband and I were in Harlingen, Tx visiting our son, we found out the working replica of this statue
was at a military site there. So we went out to see it and sat through a movie and lecture about the Battle of Iwo Jima.
When we walked out to see the statue I started crying and could not stop. We spent about an hour walking around that statue looking at it.
I will be forever grateful that we did that. If you’re ever in that part of Texas it would be worth your time to go see it. It’s at the Marine Military Academy out by the airport.
Well said!
There have been some questions in recent years whether Jim Bradley’s account is 100% accurate. But I don’t care. There were six boys there and they did raise the flag over the killing ground (twice actually). You really ought to read Bradley’s book Flags of Our Fathers. It is a memorable one.
Jim Bradley believed that his father was one of the six, but apparently it was discovered more recently that he wasn't. At any event the three survivors did not think they deserved any special recognition over the other Americans fighting on Iwo Jima.
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