On this day in 1945 US Marines raised the flag...

And have argued about who actually did it ever since. Hats off to them though. That place was hell on earth for a few days. My mom's adoptive father was there, never heard him speak a word about it.

fricking right. Straight piss and vinegar running through those boys veins. Not like these soyboy bitches we have now.

Rah!

Uncle was part of the platoon covering the first flag wavers.

Since the OP is lazy....

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What are the odds that everyone in this thread would have a familial tie to those guys

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They are brothers from the past. My tie would be myself, my father, and his mom and dad all being Marines.

I had a great-uncle who landed on Iwo on the fifth day of the battle. He spent a grand total of ten hours in combat in his Marine Corps career. A Jap grenade shredded up his leg pretty good, and he was evacuated off the island. He later told me it was the best thing that could have happened to him; he got to spend the final months of the war slapping pretty nurses on the butt in Guam and Hawaii.

An old Marine Corps Sergeant Major I used to work with told me if every Marine who claimed to have been on that mountain during the flag raising had actually been there, the island would have tipped over.

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Hey, my mom was a Navy nurse. You owe me reparations!

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But was she pretty?




I kid, I kid! You mom was awesome person for serving!