To: Incorrigible
Semper Fi - bump to read later.
2 posted on
09/29/2003 11:22:53 AM PDT by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
(He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.)
To: Incorrigible
Great story. Great hero. Historical note though - Basilone was not the first USMC non-com to win the Medal of Honor. Marine non-coms won the MOH in Haiti, WWI, the Phillipines insurections and other previous engagements.
3 posted on
09/29/2003 11:45:26 AM PDT by
azcap
To: Incorrigible
There was an pretty well publicized effort to name the Meadowlands Stadium after John Basilone. Instead they named it after Brendan Byrne, a former Democratic Governor of NJ who empitomized the term political hack.
4 posted on
09/29/2003 12:09:23 PM PDT by
caltrop
To: Incorrigible
6 posted on
09/29/2003 12:27:09 PM PDT by
gunnyg
To: Incorrigible
Bump!
To: Incorrigible; AntiJen; MistyCA; SAMWolf; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; LindaSOG; tomkow6; HiJinx; ...
Bump and a great American hero ping...if anyone has a Basilone factoid or story to share, that would be great.
10 posted on
09/29/2003 11:24:31 PM PDT by
DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
(He's not dead, he's electroencephalographically challenged.)
To: Incorrigible
a still from
"To the Shores of Iwo JIma (1945)"
13 posted on
09/30/2003 12:57:25 AM PDT by
wolficatZ
(_________\0/_________/|_________"shark!")
To: Incorrigible
Thank you Sgt Basilone for your courage and valor and for dying for the freedoms in America.
As a side note, a portion of the I-5 Interstate that cuts thru Camp Pendleton is named John Basiline Memorial Highway.
23 posted on
09/30/2003 7:42:05 AM PDT by
exmarine
To: Incorrigible
Semper Fi bump
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