Posted on 11/10/2014 1:51:52 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
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There’s one on every lapel including my own, but tomorrow our entire hearts should be red poppies for veterans like the perpetually plucky Canada Free Press columnist, Jerry McConnell.
The poppy you wear on your lapel gets put away after each Veterans/Remembrance Day.
The one in your heart can be worn forever.
“It was 68 years ago today that Jerry McConnell landed with the 1st Marines on a beach at Guadalcanal, in 1942. It would be over four months before Jerry got to take a deep breath, and step back from the constant strain of fighting the Japanese,” McConnell’s colleague, SEAL and fellow CFP columnist Jim O’Neill wrote back in August of 2010.
“When he departed “the ‘Canal,” he weighed 35 pounds less than when he left America. He was weak from dysentery, wracked with malaria, and had seen and done things that he never imagined before Guadalcanal. He was 18 years old.”
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Boy, amen to that picture! I wish those guys were in the Senate!
Please don’t insult the Marines by using the descriptor “leatherneck” when rferring to Clown Prince nobola. The fool insults humanity by existing.
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