[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Rest In Peace, Sir.

[ustanker]

I hope some one in Congress mentions this today.....Doubt it.

[TLI]

This country will soon need a whole new generation of such men, in addition to the current generation that is handling the M.E. for us now.

[Silly]

I didn’t realize he raised the flag. Bless his heart. What a shame that he had to carry around the burden of his kidnapped son all these years. Now he’s found peace.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Ping...

[oh8eleven]

Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945


"As Cpl Lindberg would later remark, "Suribachi was easy to take; it was getting there that was so hard!" Of the 40-man patrol, thirty-six were killed or wounded in later fighting on Iwo Jima including Lindberg himself who would be shot through the stomach and arm a week later on 1 March, 1945. For his heroism Lindberg would receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star Medal with the citation reading in part:

"Repeatedly exposing himself to hostile grenades and machine-gun fire in order that he might reach and neutralize enemy pill-boxes at the base of Mount Suribachi, Corporal Lindberg courageously approached within ten or fifteen yards of the emplacements before discharging his weapon, thereby assuring the annihilation of the enemy and the successful completion of this platoon's mission. While engaged in an attack on hostile cave positions on March 1, he fearlessly exposed himself to accurate enemy fire and was subsequently wounded and evacuated."

Semper Fi Cpl Lindberg - we'll never forget you or those like you who saved the world from tyranny.

[jazusamo]

Charles "Chuck" Lindberg, one of America's finest.

Rest In Peace.

Thanks for the ping, ButThreeLeftsDo.

[reagan_fanatic]

Another of the Greatest Generation has left us.

RIP, soldier.

[azhenfud]

Just a trivia question: From what ship did the first flag of Iwo come? Name & type?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Charles W. Lindberg, photographed in his Richfield, Minn home on May 25, 2004, holds the Silver Star he won for bravery during the battle for Iwo Jima in World War II. Lindberg, who died Sunday June 24, 2007, was the last survivor of the six U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima. A second planting of the U.S. flag was immortalized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal that became one of the signature photographs of the war.

[Tolsti]

Salute

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

And little did Charles “Chuck” Lindberg know at that time that in 2007, traitorous Bush is about to give our country away.

All that fighting and loss of lives were for nothing.

God bless you, Charles.

[HitmanLV]

I just happened to watch ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ last evening. RIP.

[napscoordinator]

Goodbye. See ya up in Heaven.

[rbosque]

God bless ya jarhead! RIP.

-Squid.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Their Battlefield...

[rabidralph]

One of the guys that cuts the grass at (WI) Arcadia's Memorial Park was at Iwo Jima and saw the flag being raised. I don't remember his name off-hand. If you live in the Wisconsin or Eastern Minnesota, I invite you all to vist the park in Western Wisconsin. It has replica statues of Iwo Jima and many military heroes. It even has an I-beam from the WTC. The Chairman of Ashley Furniture designed the statues and replicated a few of them in smaller sizes than the originals.

[Chode]

Prayers up... RIP

[freema]

If you’ve already seen this, and posted...my apologies.

But I did not want anyone to miss this report of the death of the last living Marine from the first flag raising at Iwo Jima.

[Altura Ct.]

RIP -

[skeeter]

BTTT.