I Remember - Do you?
POSTED BY: TPage
UPDATED: Thursday, November 16, 2006 00:55
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Originally posted by Siri:
I, too, remember my father who died in 2002. He was with the Third Marine Division when they raised the flag on Imo Jima in WWII.
I was priviledged to have known someone from that division at Iwo Jima, also, although he died when I was only 13. He was my best friend's father (from grade school). He had lied about his age, and was only 17 when he joined the corps, and subsequently died in his mid-40's from a heart attack (his heart had been damaged by malaria which he contracted while serving in the Pacific).
Not all of a war's casualties die during the war in which they served.
We owe so much to your father, my friend's father, and the many others like them, who (I'm sure) sacrificed, and endured much (both mentally and physically) as a result of their service, even after their active service had ended.
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My father-in-law was a medic with the First Marine Division on Okinawa. This was the largest air-sea-land battle in history.
Several years ago we all vacationed in Hawaii together and it was tremendous experience seeing Pearl Harbor through the eyes of a man who, when he last saw it was still recovering from the damage.
He still plays the harmonica he carried during the war.
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I spent 14yrs married to a wonderful man who served in VietNam for 4yrs but never left there.
This in memory of Dallas Gene Baker 101st Airborne.
Sorry it took so long to respond but Veteran's Day is really rough on me.
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I spent most of the day with a WWII vet, who is in great health, thanks to the VA, and the fine training. On the same day, I ate lunch with an Iraq War vet, and he talked about how the vets had changed, and how he wished it was more like the days of wwii, and how he thought the men he served with were courageous, but when something like abu ghraib happened, there was a sort of blame-the-troops feeling which had evolved here for some reason. He thought it was partly media, but partly from our govt.
I think with murtha and gates, maybe that govt. angle will start to change. I hope the media takes the hint.
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