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1 posted on 05/28/2016 10:01:12 PM PDT by rey
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I’ve been to Tarawa. I’ve been trying to go to all the islands that can be visited in the Pacific where major battles were fought.

Guam, Tinian, Saipan, Chuk (Truk, Tarawa)


2 posted on 05/28/2016 10:12:06 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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RIP.


3 posted on 05/28/2016 10:19:50 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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He’s been home for some time.


4 posted on 05/28/2016 10:26:17 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: rey
Welcome home, Marine. RIP.
5 posted on 05/28/2016 10:37:31 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Tarawa was a three-day meatgrinder, with many fine young men killed just wading ashore from landing craft hung up on the coral rimming the island.

It was a deadly SNAFU.


6 posted on 05/28/2016 10:56:31 PM PDT by Jack Hammer ( - in ANY sense - a woman.)
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“Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.”

—NED DOLAN


9 posted on 05/28/2016 11:38:29 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: rey
Excellent documentary with original footage of that terrible day almost 73 years ago.

VIDEO: War In The Pacific (1941/1945) 3/8 - Tarawa 20th November 1943

12 posted on 05/29/2016 12:23:42 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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...and more than 5,000 Japanese and Korean soldiers.

The Koreans were slave laborers, not soldiers. Some of them actually survived the battle.

18 posted on 05/29/2016 6:49:35 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Thank you for your service Marine. I rue your untimely, ultimate Sacrifice. May You Rest in Peace. Salute.


20 posted on 05/29/2016 6:57:20 AM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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Semper Fi my brother.


23 posted on 05/29/2016 9:32:17 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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And yet our “worthless half-breed pResident” has the temerity to go to Hiroshima and apologize for bombing that city! President Trump will need to retrace all of Obola’s “apology sites,” and set the record straight.


24 posted on 05/29/2016 10:04:21 AM PDT by vette6387
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