Happy Fourth of July

Iwo Jima Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi.

I was half listening to a radio show yesterday, and there was this man on discussing an experience fighting at Mount Suribachi (or maybe it was the son talking about his father?). He was the one asked to get the flag. The one raised in this picture. They’d already raised one, but it wasn’t big enough, and they need another. So he went back to the shore, he waded out to a boat and got a bigger one. While he was there he grabbed as many apples and sandwiches as he could. He filled his pockets. His comrades had been fighting for days and hadn’t eaten any “real” food.

I’m so grateful for men willing to go days without eating food, (fighting their guts out and too many times dying) to preserve freedom.

Thank you.

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