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2003-05-26 Home Front

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Posted by Frank G 2003-05-26 10:28 am|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I looked at my late father's monographs of the 1st MarDiv in the pacific in WW2. He had lots of notations by pictures of guys that never came back. There were young medal of honor winners that died at age 19 or 20 or 21. There was a guy named Wilkenson sitting in a wheelbarrow with muddy rubber boots on eating out of his messkit at Pavuvu. Notation beside his picture said, K.I.A. Peleliu. There were so many of them that never came home, not even as bodies. Some they never found. They were robbed of their lives, their families, their kids, their wives, their grandchildren. They were scared shitless, but they did the dirty job they had to do so we could have a chance at living a decent life. I think about them today and I say, "Thank you for our lives and our country. We will never forget you."

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-26 14:17:39|| 2003-05-26 14:17:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks for reminding us what this day is all about. I just wish there was something more I could say to all those men and women who never came home than "Thank you, from me and my family."

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-05-26 18:04:35|| 2003-05-26 18:04:35|| Front Page Top

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