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A drunken Indian................
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.......... I wonder how many of our younger members ever heard this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKDLQWEvubc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKDLQWEvubc
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RIP, Ira. You earned it.
And, I will never forget.
Dan
may he RIP
I teach Washington State Hunters Safety, most of my students don't know who John Wayne was, much less Annie Oakley, Col David Crocket or Daniel Boone. This indeed a sad state of affairs.
W.D.
I thought everyone knew the story about Ira Hayes. But, I'm not surprised.
I teach Washington State Hunters Safety, most of my students don't know who John Wayne was, much less Annie Oakley, Col David Crocket or Daniel Boone. This indeed a sad state of affairs.
W.D.
Capt, honestly and embarrassingly enough, I did not remember who he was, until I listened to the song and read they captions. I was never taught this in school or don't remember it. I do remember reading about him in war books after school, but forgot who he was. As much as a WWII buff that I am, I totally forgot who he was. Embarrassing, but I guess I am a product of the 60's and 70's where we learned more about Vietnam then we did WWII. Oakie
I was preparing to start feeling all superior to you when I realized to my shame I didn't know the names of any of the other five. Probably the reason I remember Ira Hayes is movies, radio programs and TV shows were made about him. Before I could form a smirk on my face that knocked it right off. I join you in your embarrassment. To my further embarrassment I know that a week from now the only names I'll remember are Joe Rosenthal and Ira Hayes.
The Heroes are:
CPL Harlon Block, USMC died in Iwo Jima, Japan 1 March 1945
PHM2 John Bradley, USN died in Antigo, Wisconsin 11 January 1994
CPL Rene Gagnon, USMC died in Manchester, N.H. 12 October 1979
CPL Ira Hayes, USMC died in Bapchule, Arizona 24 January 1955
PFC Franklin Sousley, USMC died in Iwo Jima, Japan 21 March 1945
SGT Michael Strank, USMC died in Iwo Jima, Japan 1 March 1945
Joe Rosenthal took the picture on 23 February 1945
Just think of all the Folks who Say PTSD is something NEW.
Just think of all the Folks who Say PTSD is something NEW.
It isn't new.....it's just now become acceptable to use it as an excuse.
Oakie, don't be so hard on yourself. If you did a Jesse Watters style man on the street interview you would find very few who know about the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. Of those who do know about it, if they remember any names it would be Joe Rosenthal and Ira Hayes.
I was preparing to start feeling all superior to you when I realized to my shame I didn't know the names of any of the other five. Probably the reason I remember Ira Hayes is movies, radio programs and TV shows were made about him. Before I could form a smirk on my face that knocked it right off. I join you in your embarrassment. To my further embarrassment I know that a week from now the only names I'll remember are Joe Rosenthal and Ira Hayes.
The Heroes are:
CPL Harlon Block, USMC died in Iwo Jima, Japan 1 March 1945
PHM2 John Bradley, USN died in Antigo, Wisconsin 11 January 1994
CPL Rene Gagnon, USMC died in Manchester, N.H. 12 October 1979
CPL Ira Hayes, USMC died in Bapchule, Arizona 24 January 1955
PFC Franklin Sousley, USMC died in Iwo Jima, Japan 21 March 1945
SGT Michael Strank, USMC died in Iwo Jima, Japan 1 March 1945
Joe Rosenthal took the picture on 23 February 1945
Harlon Block helped raise the first flag. Not the one that garnered all the attention.
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
Just think of all the Folks who Say PTSD is something NEW.
It isn't new.....it's just now become acceptable to use it as an excuse.
Give it awhile longer Rack and it'll be the PTSD Holocaust.
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
Just think of all the Folks who Say PTSD is something NEW.
It isn't new.....it's just now become acceptable to use it as an excuse.
Give it awhile longer Rack and it'll be the PTSD Holocaust.
Shame it is one of those thinks that there is no real test to see if they have it that's why all the Abusers. When folk like Ira suffer for real.
quote:Originally posted by kimi
quote:Originally posted by Rack Ops
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
Just think of all the Folks who Say PTSD is something NEW.
It isn't new.....it's just now become acceptable to use it as an excuse.
Give it awhile longer Rack and it'll be the PTSD Holocaust.
Shame it is one of those thinks that there is no real test to see if they have it that's why all the Abusers. When folk like Ira suffer for real.
Agree.
Need to read.
Read it and it was hard to do. Made me remember some stuff I'd spent a lot of time and whiskey trying to forget.
One of the Marines in Flags of our Fathers was buried last month (obviously not one of the flag raisers).
quote:William Faulkner was 21 when he landed on Iwo Jima for what would become one of history's bloodiest battles.
Sixty-five years later, the St. Charles man says he still can't explain how he survived 18 days on the tiny Pacific island where so many of his fellow troops died.
"I had a lot of friends right next to me get killed," he said. "You often wonder, How does that happen to them and not to you?"
Faulkner rarely speaks about his service in World War II but agreed to do so in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, which ended after 35 days of intense fighting on March 26, 1945, and was forever memorialized in an iconic photo of six U.S. troops raising a flag on Mount Suribachi.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20100325/news/303259967/