Posted on 02/20/2007 1:15:52 PM PST by SmithL
IF GUTS were traded on Wall Street, these guys would be richer than Donald Trump.
Angelo Ciotta, 81, of East Meadow, L.I., who joined the Marines when he was 17, tells you just how close he got to the enemy 62 years ago on Iwo Jima.
"I mean, sometimes you could touch with your fingers the pillboxes where the Japanese were holed up inside," he was saying.
Angelo, head of Iwo Jima Survivors of New York, spoke to me yesterday at the American Air Power Museum at Republic Airport, where veterans, their wives and kids observed Presidents Day.
To say Angelo had a terrifying job on Iwo Jima is like dismissing Babe Ruth as just another guy who played baseball.
. . . Angelo knows all about loyalty to comrades.
So what would he do to politicians he believes are trying to fracture our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan?
"I would round up those politicians, put them in a camp in Alaska, and - with lots of rules - tell our guys, 'Do what you have to do to clean them up.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
***"I mean, sometimes you could touch with your fingers the pillboxes where the Japanese were holed up inside," ***
Did hr really say "Japanese" or a shorter term.;-)
Excuse me? Everyday in Iraq, and in the service of our Nation, there are heroes doing heroic deeds. Every frikkin' day! Think before you post such malarkey.
Great post!
I remember that movie too. What the heck does it have to do with "uncommon valor" and "common virtue"?
I should have mentioned his tagline. Jane Fonda was cast as a whore in the movie.
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