Had an uncle,marine, who only ONCE in his life talked bout what he experienced/saw on the islands...
My uncle was in Underwater Demolition in WWII. After that he was a pipe fitter who worked all over the midde east. I was very young at the time but I remember he said something once after he had come back from Saudi Arabia. He was talking to the other men while having a beer and cleaning blue crabs at my dads bay house in Texas. He said "because of their crazy religion some day we will be fighting them in the streets". I hope he was wrong.