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Iwo Jima hero shot to death in motel parking lot [God Bless Clair C. Chaffin, 83]
scnow ^ | June 9, 2009 | staff reports

Posted on 06/09/2009 8:06:08 PM PDT by Flavius

Florence County sheriff’s deputies have arrested two suspects, including a 16-year-old, they say were involved in a fatal shooting outside a Florence hotel room Monday morning. *snip*

A native of Jackson, Mich., Chaffin landed at Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, according to a February 2008 report in The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun.

He dropped out of high school in the 10th grade to join the Navy and “even the score” for the death of his two brothers, Elmer and Kenneth, in the war, according to the September newsletter of the Gator Detachment of the Marine Corps League Inc. in Gainesville, Fla. He also sang in the Great Lakes Naval Choir.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chaffin; gettherope; hatecrime; iwojima; scum; veteran
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

Prunes and diapers.

Works for me.


61 posted on 06/09/2009 9:05:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: savedbygrace
I think this is a fairly recent pic of him, in this article:
http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/11/12/news/campus/081111_panel.txt

I think you're right. Nice find.


Harrison Diamond / Alligator Staff) Julian Pleasants, director emeritus of the UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, listens to World War II veteran Clair Chaffin speak during a panel discussion at "Testimony of War" in Pugh Hall Monday night.

http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/11/12/news/campus/081111_panel.txt

62 posted on 06/09/2009 9:05:58 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Morgana

“Okay okay....send their punk ass into the military..”

No, not “okay”.

Cripes, that was a dumb thing to post.


63 posted on 06/09/2009 9:08:14 PM PDT by wolficatZ (Divestment from oppressive leftist dogma.)
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To: Salamander
We're going to have to stop this line of posting.

There's nothing special about old guys and nothing wrong with young guys eking out a living, what do we need pictures for?

Pretty soon this site is going to be known as an extremist, right wing site populated by separatists.

64 posted on 06/09/2009 9:10:36 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Flavius

My prayers and heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Clair C. Chaffin.
Thank you for your service and sacrifices Marine.
Rest in Peace
Salute

“There can be no triumph without loss, no victory without suffering, no freedom without sacrifice.” David Randolph
“Day is done, gone the sun, from the hills, from the lake, from the skies. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. Go to sleep, peaceful sleep.”

Patriot Guard Rider


66 posted on 06/09/2009 9:17:16 PM PDT by Rannug
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To: Flavius

And now I wish I dared print what I really feel about those two, whatever you want to call them, and their ilk. But I enjoy posting here. If I could only have spent a little, very little required, time with them, this tragedy would never have occurred.


67 posted on 06/09/2009 9:19:23 PM PDT by Rannug
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To: Southack
We’ve got some pacifist nurses here in Alabama who carry a glass vial of deer urine (or from a gland, I forget) in their purses.

When they leave a night shift and have to walk to the edge of the hospital parking lot, they hold the vial in one hand.

Dropping the vial breaks the glass and emits an aroma several times more offensive than ou de skunk, detering most criminals and providing a physical erection barrier to rapists.

Sounds like a product I've seen at some of the places that sell pepper spray and stun guns, called "REPULSE Rape Deterrent". This stuff supposedly creates a truly appalling stench that has to be removed with an *antidote*.

68 posted on 06/09/2009 9:21:59 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: Southack

Buck lure doesn’t really stink that bad.

If that’s what they’re carrying, I sure hope they’re not betting their lives on it.

There’s always the chance of people who can’t smell.

[I’m one of them and a thousand stinky skunks wouldn’t even faze me]

If they were carrying male bobcat urine [used as a garden pest deterrent] I could *maybe* see that helping...a little.

People always comment on the “unique” key chain I carry.

There’s a 7 inch pointy spike buck antler on it.

[it’s just “decorative”]....:)

The rest of your post, I whole-heartedly agree.

[”Pacifists”....good Lord, what idiots]


69 posted on 06/09/2009 9:22:08 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: Old Professer

I assume that was sarcasm.


70 posted on 06/09/2009 9:23:30 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: Flavius

RIP.


71 posted on 06/09/2009 9:34:09 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: ETL; savedbygrace
The gentleman shown facing in your pic is Julian Pleasants. Clair Chaffin is the man facing away from the camera in the lower left corner of the picture.

Here's another picture from a different angle of the same event (Clair Chaffin is on the right):

WW II panel members at "Testimony of War" program in November 2008. From
left to right: Clif Cormier, Iwo Jima survivor; Victor Cote, ex-POW held by the
Japanese; moderator Julian Pleasants; Frank Towers, Operation Cobra and
Battle of the Bulge survivor; and Clair Chaffin, corpsman on Saipan and Iwo
Jima. (photo by Ira Fischler)

72 posted on 06/09/2009 10:03:19 PM PDT by rottndog (Freedom IS NOT FREE--Let us NEVER FORGET those that have paid the highest price for it!)
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To: Morgana; wolficatZ; ETL
"...send their punk ass into the military and let them fight over in Iraq and maybe, just maybe they will learn some respect..."


Military service is voluntary. Our brave men & women in uniform are among the most-respected people within our society.
Why would we place two idiotic, worthless, lower-than-whaleshit, murderous, criminal thugs in the midst of those honorable people? Morgana, yours was an absurd statement.

73 posted on 06/09/2009 10:06:14 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Mr. Chaffin, your heroism will not be forgotten.

I want just five minutes with these two cockroaches to set things right.

It's time to lower ourselves to their level and fertilize the good earth.

74 posted on 06/09/2009 10:22:50 PM PDT by Rocketwolf68 (Bring back the crusades)
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To: Flavius

Prayers for his family and loved ones. Any other thoughts would get me banned.


75 posted on 06/09/2009 10:36:44 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Charles Martel

http://www.bugs411.com/rape-deter-411.htm


76 posted on 06/09/2009 11:50:48 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: rottndog

Thanks for the correction.


77 posted on 06/10/2009 3:48:01 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: rottndog

Wow, he was in both Saipan and Iwo Jima. Two of the deadliest battles in the Pacific.


78 posted on 06/10/2009 3:57:38 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: rottndog; savedbygrace

Thanks for the clarification. They didn’t make it at all clear which one he was in the earlier pic.

I tracked down the link for your photo:
http://web.history.ufl.edu/oral/publicprograms.html


79 posted on 06/10/2009 4:04:16 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: rottndog; savedbygrace
Photobucket
"Clair Chaffin, corpsman on Saipan and Iwo Jima."

Source:
http://web.history.ufl.edu/oral/publicprograms.html

80 posted on 06/10/2009 4:15:47 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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