"An Iwo Jima Marine goes back." Topic

I saw this over on "This Ain't Hell" and thought I should share it. Thank you Mr Lauriello for your service. May you have a safe journey. I pray we may be worthy of all you and your comrades endured.

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Good news. I'm glad people still care.

Thank you, Tom.

70 years ago yesterday. Big article in our paper. Two living veterans still living here and both in good health. One of the Marines was 95! Only other one close by was in Danville, a navy corpsman. News article interviewed all three. Lost my great uncle last year. He too survived, but never spoke of it.
Also was at Saipan and Guadalcanal.

Thank you Marines and Sailors alike.

Semper Fi

I had six great uncles fight in ww2. 3 in Europe, 3 in the Pacific. The European theater vets had no trouble speaking of their experiences. One of the Pacific veterans was in the CB's. He talked all the time about his experience. The other two Pacific theater veterans maybe said a total of 5 words about what they saw. Interesting.

Tacitus, I think it may be due to their mos, or where and what they saw or did. There were 12 men serving on my Dad's side of the family and 3 men and 1 woman(ANC Major retd in '65). All in the European theater, except 4 who served in the Pacific. Two were airborne. One talked a little, the other not. My great uncle who was in the Corps was 0300. The last 3 years prior to his death, had really bad flashbacks. One uncle, USN retd Master Chief Bosuns Mate with 35 years service talked the most. My Dad relished funny stories, most of duty in Belgium after VE Day. He talked about the Bulge once, 50 years afterward. That was mostly about how bitter cold it was. The others talked more. Only one of the airborne vets discussed combat, and that was geared to a very interested 9 year old. that was me!

I've shared almost nothing of my service with my son. The wife had a good ear and was there to listen when I needed it. Not many of my generation cared either to remember or hear.