[Dubya]

Jim Johnson's father Clayton William Johnson, left, next to his uncle James Bernard Johnson. James Bernard Johnson was aged 17 when he was killed in the Tarawa Atoll during World War II. He was buried in a mass grave on the atoll.

[lilylangtree]

I hope the US military bring our fallen heroes home. Isn’t that what the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is all about. Whatever happened to the motto “don’t leave a soldier behind?”

[Ditto]

From yesterday's Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

High-tech legwork IDs lost Marines
A private group using technology and old records has found the remains of 139 Marines killed during the World War II Battle of Tarawa. At least 23 of the Marines came from Pennsylvania, and at least seven from Allegheny County, according to Mark Noah, spokesman for History Flight of Marathon, Fla. Although verification will depend upon the U.S. government's exhuming and identifying the remains at its forensics lab in Hawaii, Noah said Monday his organization is confident it has identified the people buried in eight mass graves by using a combination of Marine burial maps, ground-penetrating radar and interviews with the island's residents.

[Dubya]

Soldier rest, Gently pressed,
To the calm, Mother Earth's
Waiting breast;
Duty done, Like the sun:
Going West.

SEMPER FI MARINES & SAILERS GOD BLESS YOU

[stylin19a]

approx 1000 Marines died and 2000 were wounded in 76 hours of hell-fighting, before Tarawa was considered taken.

Scratchin my head about why a mass grave. Has to be a good reason.

[Cacique]

ping

[stylin19a]

psssssst...good news over here

[billorites]

When I hear of Tarawa I think of my grandmother's death.

She died in October of 1968 at the age of 86 or so.

I, 12 years old almost 13, was sent that morning off with the neighbor lady so that my mother could take care of things and buy a dark dress for the funeral.

I remember spending a good part of the day, must have been a Saturday, at the town library. I brought home two books both of which I read. One, by local newspaper writer Paul Benzaquin was called Holocaust and was about the terrible nightclub fire in Boston back in 1941 that killed 400+ people. The other book was a history of the battle of Tarawa in the Pacific.

When I remember my grandmother's passing I always think about the Boston nightclub fire and about the Marines fighting at Tarawa.

[llevrok]

A war is not over until all return home.

[Patriot Hooligan]

“I consider it no sacrifice to die for my country. In my mind, we came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died.”

General George S. Patton

[syriacus]

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

[SunkenCiv]

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[mad_as_he$$]

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.