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Met a Navy veteran of Iwo Jima today
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:37 pm
91 years old. He was on a destroyer offshore. Can't see or hear very well but very sharp. Still worked on his farm until last year 
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:38 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:41 pm to Jim Rockford
See if you can find out which Destroyer. My Grandfather was on one off Iwo Jima (or Okinawa, I get them mixed) as well.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:44 pm to Jim Rockford
My grandpa was in the Navy and went to Iwo as well. He is still alive and kicking at 92 years old. I have a Jap rifle he took off a dead Jap and some other incredible artifacts.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:44 pm to Jim Rockford
Greatest generation, by far. Those that served and those that were at home. Citizens back then were to busy rationing supplies and checking casualty reports to protest the president or illegals or whatever.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:50 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 2/27/17 at 1:29 pm to Jim Rockford
Prior to the invasion, Dad flew USMC B-24's taking photographs over Iwo.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 1:45 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 2/27/17 at 1:49 pm to Jim Rockford
We are losing them quickly. My grandpa was POW in Germany for three years. Stories that old men could tell.
I hope you told him thank you for all he did.
I hope you told him thank you for all he did.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:08 pm to ksayetiger
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Greatest generation, by far. Those that served and those that were at home. Citizens back then were to busy rationing supplies and checking casualty reports to protest the president or illegals or whatever.
I will just leave this here. It is about the Defense Plant riots in Detroit. Happened other places too.
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:10 pm to Jim Rockford
Paging Edward Teach
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:12 pm to Jim Rockford
I had a great-uncle at Iwo. Went through basic, got shipped overseas, and his first day in combat his leg got shredded by shrapnel and spent the rest of the war in hospitals in Guam and Hawaii. He said he was a lucky s.o.b.!
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:17 pm to GAAtty70
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will just leave this here
The same generation that fought in wwii was the same generation that passed civil rights laws in the 60s.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:17 pm to Jim Rockford
My dad was on Okinawa.
He died in 1989.
I have a relation by marriage who was on Corregidor and did Bataan and then was slave laborer for the Japanese until 8-45.
97 years old and still drives. Devil dog.
He died in 1989.
I have a relation by marriage who was on Corregidor and did Bataan and then was slave laborer for the Japanese until 8-45.
97 years old and still drives. Devil dog.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:24 pm to Jim Rockford
Right now this generation is fighting the greatest of all fights. We are fighting against fascism, racism, islamophobia and seeking protections for women, trans, and genderqueers. We literally have Nazis in the White House and people are living in fear every. single. day. I'm not taking away from those guys who fought in Vietnam but we're facing the mother of all wars right now.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:24 pm to chinhoyang
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Prior to the invasion, Dad flew USMC B-24's taking photographs over Iwo.
Not a safe job at that time. The Marines flying those recon missions and the B-25Js are often overlooked.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:28 pm to SabiDojo
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ight now this generation is fighting the greatest of all fights. We are fighting against fascism, racism, islamophobia and seeking protections for women, trans, and genderqueers. We literally have Nazis in the White House and people are living in fear every. single. day. I'm not taking away from those guys who fought in Vietnam but we're facing the mother of all wars right now.
wait....you're serious?
Posted on 2/27/17 at 2:29 pm to EvrybodysAllAmerican
Sabi is a SJW outlaw biker 
Posted on 2/27/17 at 4:29 pm to Jim Rockford
Had an uncle on a destroyer then as well, passed away a few years ago. He always said that he would never eat french fries again as the Navy served them with every meal & they were "fricking horrible". Went over 50 years without.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:18 pm to SabiDojo
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Right now this generation is fighting the greatest of all fights. We are fighting against fascism, racism, islamophobia and seeking protections for women, trans, and genderqueers. We literally have Nazis in the White House and people are living in fear every. single. day. I'm not taking away from those guys who fought in Vietnam but we're facing the mother of all wars right now.
I just hope one day that I can recall what I did during the great Meme Wars of the 21st century so I can tell my grandchildren that I just didn't sit on the sidelines.
Forward! The Pepe Brigade!
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