Rest in peace soldier...
Your work here is done...
Posted on 06/25/2007 7:10:19 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
I’m not a history major, you could very well be correct. All of the accounts that I have read, (mostly AP) are reporting “six Marines”.
Any experts out there?????
“Any experts out there?????”
Not sure...see post 60.
“Lindberg’s patrol was back in combat, crawling through the black volcanic rock of the island, when a group of five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raised a second, larger flag about four hours later. By Lindberg’s account, his commander ordered the first flag replaced and safeguarded because he worried it would be taken by someone as a souvenir.”
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=258475
There ya go......
Cool. Thanks. Learn something new every day.
This day, it was actually something worth learning.
“This day, it was actually something worth learning.”
For a lot of us.......
Rest in peace soldier...
Your work here is done...
SEMPER FI, Cpl LINDBERG!!
This MARINE will ALWAYS be INDEBTED TO YOU!!!
It’s MARINES like YOU that made me want to be a MARINE!!!!
MAY THE GOOD LORD LOVE AND KEEP YOU, SIR!!!
With RESPECT and LOVE,
Howie66
RIP.
A moment silence - so mentioned on the Congressional record would have been appropriate. . .Sad. . .but the image remains; I only hope it's power for inspiration will remain as well.
Without so much of a respectful mention; I wonder. . .
This surely has slipped through Repub radar. . .or so it seems.
My grandmother went to high school with one of those guys.
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