"...For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"
IMO, Liberals and RINOs aren't worthy of licking these mens boots! These brave American heroes must be turning in their graves at the dirty politics and anti-American, anti-military garbage that we have representing us.
Thanks for that great post.
One of the things I always found infinitely interesting about Iwo Jima had to do with the guts of the guys that did that job. In those days the planners knew from much experience that an island that size would be taken in about 3 or 4 days. It was simply a "given."
I read somewhere once that Kuribayashi knew it was a suicide mission. He had the same basic information as did General Smith and Admiral Spruance that in that war for invasion after invasion after invasion the Americans had never been hurled back, not once. He knew if they maintained the will, Iwo would fall. His plan was to surrender it a square inch at a time. The whole event still makes me shudder to think of it.
Thank you, gentlemen. RIP.
[...the battle of Iwo Jima really was. 6000 marines were killed in a two-month long battle securing this two-mile speck of black sulphur in the Pacific.]
These are the heros that a movie can not depict. I don't really care about their reasons for joining, it is important that they stood through the fear and sorrows and despicable horror that inescapable battles between men (representing and defending and protecting the average joe like me and you)bring and fought to win. And we don't know them in any way except they were of our fathers who decided to fight against an evil enemy who would have destroyed us if they did nothing, and so they did.
Can you imagine this happening today with so many young and violent pacifists who have been raised to avoid fighting for their country? I can not, I hope I am wrong.