Posted on 02/19/2020 9:02:07 AM PST by ransomnote
This is a message that sounds like it came from our days gone by. Days of our greatness and days of OUR flag.
I remember calculating this out one time, and realized that it averaged one Marine killed every five minutes for thirty straight days.
Astonishing.
Imagine, if you will, this conflict being reported by today’s gutless, anti American, media. They would be demanding to know if we had an “exit strategy”, or if our responses were proportionate.
Reminds me that I need to add “The Sands of Iwo Jima” to my Netflix queue. One of John Wayne’s finest movies. Yes, at the end of the movie, they show the flag raising on Mt. Surabachi, in very dramatic fashion. Leaves me with wet eyes and lump in my throat every time.
Read the book “Flags of Our Fathers”. So much better than the movie.
Just a reminder, any 18 year old at the battle would now be 93.
If you haven’t seen it, yet. Watch “The Pacific”, I think it superior to Band of Brothers (and that’s saying something)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” was pretty good too.
Thanks for the tip. I just added “The Pacific” to my Netflix DVD queue.
Battle of Iwo Jima anniversary and President Trump’s message.
“imagine, if you will, this conflict being reported by today’s gutless, anti American, media”
Patton
My late father-in-law, 4th. Marine Division. Wounded on Iwo Jima. Leg wound, ‘’the million dollar wounded’’. Got him the heck out of there and home safe.
Someone remind me what speech Obama gave on the 70th anniversary or the 65th anniversary of this event.....
War is ugly but America stepped up and did what had to be done. Since WWII,America has lost its way in how it fights as we are about to lose the so called “War on Terror”/America’s longest war with the “peace talks” with the Taliban. Today’s America could never fight to win against the Imperial Japanese because of the left and the media.
I know. I am not sure we could do that again.
Even in WWII, though, as I recall, there was an outcry on the home front due to the casualties at Tarawa.
God Bless those men, every one of them.
Letters of Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) is really good.
Flags of our Fathers, not so much.
It is real hard to be a patriot now-a-days when so many are globalists sitting by and even profiting while the US economy is stripped mined and unbridled LEGAL immigration creates fertile ground for socialism. Even here on Free Republic there are globalists all over the place. You know who you are.
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