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Veterans

tonyt53

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1. I wish my dad was still around. He passed away in 1981. His feet never healed completely.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Aug 6, 2016, 04:06 PM

Aug 2016

He was in the first US Marine landing on Guadalcanal and then Iwo Jima was his last. He was wounded while clearing hidden Japanese while working their way up Suribachi. Spent the rest of the war in Australia and didn't get to come home until six months after the war ended. His dad died before he made it back home. Dad was in the 3rd marines when he landed on Guadalcanal, but after a short time in Australia recovering from a wound from that landing, he was placed into the 5th Marines. The absolute hell those guys went through has been forgotten by so many. Dad never talked about it much, but he was proud to have been a Marine.

Thank you for that picture and article.

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