"A Marine takes orders, even orders to surrender, and obeys them."
That would be a hard order to swallow, in hindsight, knowing how the Japanese treated their pow's, that would be one increddibly heck of a hard order to swallow....
113 posted on 04/01/2005 8:55:55 AM PST by logic
("All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing......")
All the more credit to the Marine discipline. The 4th Marines had been in China for years prior to WWII and knew well that barbaric behavior of the Japanese.
Its the same discipline that brought victories like Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
118 posted on 04/01/2005 9:03:52 AM PST by An Old Marine
(Freedom isn't Free)