A 'lest we forget' bump on the 60th anniversary of a particularly nasty battle.
To: Non-Sequitur
A "Greatest Generation" bump as well to ALL who served in WWII.
2 posted on
08/07/2002 5:54:36 AM PDT by
A2J
To: Non-Sequitur
Happy to report that Mitchell Paige (Congressional Medal of Honor from Guadalcanal)is still doing just fine out here in La Quinta, California.
To: Non-Sequitur
A big bump to the Iron Bottom Sound boys.
4 posted on
08/07/2002 5:58:35 AM PDT by
blam
To: Non-Sequitur
Thanks for the mention. My Dad, who is in a nursing home in California was a mess cook in the Army. He has pictures of Gaudalcanal, as well as a handwritten and illustrated book of the campaign there. I remember reading it as a small child and always wanted to talk to him about it, but he kept it to himself.
Here's to you, John Ferreira, (Shorty) I love you and appreciate your sacrifice.
To: Non-Sequitur
Oft-forgotten battle at Guadalcanal was turning point in WWII Not to nit pick, but Midway was the turining point of WWII in the Pacific theater...
7 posted on
08/07/2002 6:07:25 AM PDT by
2banana
To: Non-Sequitur
Highly recommend "Guadalcanal Diary" as a great read - written, I believe, by a Colonel who served from the first landing onward.
Read it in grammar school, and from there was hooked on military books for life.
10 posted on
08/07/2002 7:00:03 AM PDT by
Psalm 73
To: Non-Sequitur
All of the Solomon Islands belonged to the Allies by February 1943.Bad history. The author seems to have ignored the campaigns in New Georgia, Vella Lavella, Bougainville, and others in the Solomons, after Feb '43.
To: Non-Sequitur
When my Dad dropped me off to go to Boot Camp He gave me a clipping he had carried in his billfold for close to 20 years. It was the Prayer put on a young Marine's Grave on Guadalcanal that said "and to St. Peter he will tell another Marine reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell". Semper Fi to all the WWII Marine Vets and a sincere thanks to the Navy and Army Vets also.
12 posted on
08/07/2002 7:07:45 AM PDT by
MCRD
To: Non-Sequitur; All
My father served at Guadalcanal. Whenever I think about the struggle and scarifices those brave men made, I am reminded of this:
And when they get to heaven,
to Saint Peter they will tell,
"Another Marine reporting, Sir.
I've served my time in Hell"
13 posted on
08/07/2002 7:11:13 AM PDT by
stormer
To: doglot
I was wrong yesterday when I
said it was the anniversary of the Guadalcanal landing... it's TODAY.
Sorry! 8^)
CD
To: Non-Sequitur
Thank You Marines--The Old Breed and the New!
We Remember!
Dick Gaines
GySgt USMC (Ret.)
1952-72
16 posted on
08/07/2002 7:17:37 AM PDT by
gunnyg
To: Non-Sequitur
Gray remembers hearing the taunts of enemy soldiers gathered in the jungle, waiting to attack. "They'd holler profanities about Eleanor Roosevelt," he says.
Taunt? Maybe the Japanese were trying to make friends.
19 posted on
08/07/2002 8:06:52 AM PDT by
skeeter
To: Snow Bunny; SassyMom; Aeronaut; SpookBrat; AntiJen; leadpenny; exnavy; JohnHuang2; DoughtyOne; ...
Bump-a-roo
To: Snow Bunny; SassyMom; Aeronaut; SpookBrat; AntiJen; leadpenny; exnavy; JohnHuang2; DoughtyOne; ...
Bump-a-roo
To: Non-Sequitur
Gray remembers hearing the taunts of enemy [Japanese] soldiers gathered in the jungle, waiting to attack. "They'd holler profanities about Eleanor Roosevelt," he says. Well, even the Japanese Imperial Soldiers eventually had to get something right.
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