Posted on 02/19/2010 4:54:14 PM PST by Dubya
Thanks for the post, the stories are fascinating.
But I disagree with one aspect - the insistance of the narrator on calling the soldiers and Marines "boys." I don't care what their physical age was, or whether they were scared, or whether they wanted to get home to their mamas or whether they died crying - anyone who could look at their staggering heroism at Iwo Jima and not honor them with the title of "men" is an ass - and dead wrong.
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