It’s just distasteful. For someone like this guy to claim he knows anything about those minutes on the summit of Suribachi.
That was chaos and misery and death like no one hardly ever sees. It’s disgusting to have some SOB, safe in Nebraska, 7 decades later who thinks he REALLY knows what happened.
Well said. My wife’s teenage uncle died the night before after scouting Suribachi with a small team
We’ve talked to some of the vets who served with him. Incredible, humble, gentlemen with minds like yesteryear. Those conversations literally sent chills up and down our spines, tears to our eyes, and a sense of patriotism never felt before
True American Heroes . . . every last one of them
Same with my father, God bless his memory. He fought for nearly two years in the Pacific as a member of the 31st Infantry “Dixie” Division (Alabama National Guard), and he rarely talked about what he went through. He did mention that getting strafed by the Japanese was the worst of it, the Marines provided the best close air support, and that he helped a sergeant who was blind in one eye get a battlefield commission, but little beyond that. Only near the end of his life did I learn from reading his division combat book that he had been awarded two Bronze Stars. Career Army, but so modest he did not wear all the awards & decorations to which he was entitled. Came home from the WWII a Major at 24 years of age...told me enough about what he had experienced and that war makes old men of young men.
‘Flags of Our Fathers’ Author Now Doubts His Father Was in Iwo Jima Photo
“He said that his father, John, a Navy corpsman, had participated in raising a flag on Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945, but had not taken part in another flag-raising the same day, which became the famous photograph.
His father, he said, probably thought that the first flag-raising was the one that was captured in the famous picture taken by Joe Rosenthal, a photographer for The Associated Press. Mr. Bradley’s doubts tell a story about the fog of war, the efforts of a son to memorialize his father and the apparent willingness of the Marines to at first brush aside questions about one of their most historic moments.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/us/iwo-jima-marines-bradley.html?_r=0
I’m waiting for the announcement that the misidentified individual is a minority female or lgbt.
Combat veterans did not run their mouths about what they
did during the war. They were ever mindful of the buddies
who lost their lives on those foreign shores. My dad had
bad shell shock & talked a lot after the war; but NOT about
the war. Flashbacks are NOT dreams; they are a repeat of
BEING THERE over & over & over.
I want to see the photos in question. You would think someone would have noticed in all the decades since.