Our country's wars - good, bad, won, lost and undecided - have exposed more heros living among us than can be reckoned or remembered.
The USMC’s campaign against Imperial Japan provided them in a steady stream
There are just too many acts of utter self sacrifice, taking place in as close a facsimile to Hell as mankind has ever devised, to be remembered and honored individually... just too many.
As a way to render due honor to them all, I chose one .
Better writers than I have put down his story. The fight where it ends was place called Tarawa.
The assault there across the lagoon stands with the Federal advance at Cold Harbor and Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg as an example of the capacity of American hearts to face impossible odds for what they hold true, and to lay down their lives for the lives of their comrades.
Take some time today to and call up this Man's story — and to remember him —
and those like him.
They have always been the wall free people live behind.