Posted on 04/24/2013 2:33:16 PM PDT by NYer
God Bless him. I have lost two uncles who fought in that war, and one great-uncle.
I've been twice...the first time was probably a dozen years ago and there wasn't one Nipper; on the second trip we saw a couple of very small Japanese tour groups. They were very quiet.
Yeah, apparently, the Marines just swam there.
Cott, many teachers are as braindead as zombies. In most cases, they don’t get to choose what is taught-That’s decided by the teachers unions, who we all know are mostly Alinsky drones. I am not excusing this teacher, as he/she should refuse to teach anything biased.
"No, I like all you Navy boys. Every time we've gotta
go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride."
My brother’s neighbor in Santa Cruz is an Indonesian Christian taken prisoner as a boy by the Japanese along with his father. They were in a forced labor camp. He said that if we hadn’t dropped the bomb, neither of them likely would have survived. The Left is big on “narratives” for a reason. We have to learn to do the same-Take oral histories and WRITE THEM DOWN, so that the truth can never be erased.
“Not one exhibit on the Navy’s role in the Marine Corp. LOL.”
Not even Corpsman?”
There is a small recognition. They have a plaque from Okinawa with a Marine Corp pin for every casualty. They use a navy anchor to denote corpsmen casualties. Only Navy reference I saw. It is really stupid, almost childish. But I love the Marine Corp. don’t get me wrong. If I am ever trapped in a third world hell hole and they want to send a rescue team for me, don’t send delta force, no rangers - send the Marines.
Or apparently let the Soviets go in and take Japan to make it a Communist state.
The Navy had a pernicious habit of treating Marines like dirt in the years before and sometimes during the Second World War. At places such as Tarawa there were Navy officers who went out of their way to walk around or otherwise avert their eyes to avoid saluting a superior ranked Marine officer or Marine General officer. The Marine Corps commemorates this traditional and perhaps adverse relationship.
Fair enough.
PS: If you go to the museum there isn’t even a mention of the Navy, not even a hint.
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That may be why it isn’t called the Navy/Marine Corp Museum. <:
Course if I am there you will always see something in regards to the USN.
Yep, pretty soon the only things they’ll teach our kids about WWII will be our Internment of the Japanese, Dresden, and the dropping of the atom bombs.
Imagine that, 65 years later.
“Neither the principal at Victor Junior High School nor the superintendent returned numerous calls seeking comment.”
The reason this crap happens is because conservatives refuse to get organized and show up at schoolboard meetings.
Five-hundred parents need to show up and demand that the principal and superintendent be fired. You gotta raise a stink or this crap will continue to happen.
Screw your Saturday barbecues, your kitchen remodeling and your stupid pursuit of mammon. Your kids and your liberty are more important. If you don’t get that, you deserve slavery and every misery visited on you.
The left appears that in order to achieve a moral victory, the victor must suffer equal or greater numbers of casualties. It's only fair.
My Father was also on a troop ship steaming for Japan when the bombs were dropped, and the Emperor capitulated. Dad was to be in the first or second wave of the invasion. Later he was assigned to the Phillipines to help offload the armada, destroy tons of materiel, and evidently get in a few firefights (Purple Heart).
I got a chance to personally thank Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets in 2003, via email, for piloting the B-29 which delivered the first atomic ordnance used in war. He just replied, “I’m glad your father made it back!” So am I, and I have no patience for jerks who would change history and sell our country out.
“You’ve got to hand it to the Japanese soldier: they are not afraid to die. And die they did!” — GySgt John Basilone, U.S.M.C. (1916-1945)
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