2.28.2005
Marine reached out to child, and she saved lives
The little Iraqi girl would not move from the road where she sat.
She kept clutching the white Beanie Baby bear she had received only weeks earlier from a U.S. Marine. Now, a Marine convoy approached.
Tim Chavez, of the Tennessean reports on an incident in Iraq that rivals any story Rod Serling ever introduced on the Twilight Zone.
Read the moving -- and spine - chilling -- story here
{Hat tip to BLACKFIVE}
2.13.2005
Men of Montford Point: The First Black Marines
During wartime training at
Montford Point, Cpl. Arvin
Lou Ghazlo shows a recruit,
Pvt. Ernest C. Jones, how
to use judo to make the
enemy's bayonet useless.
(National Archives)
The Montford Point Marines
Bethanne Kelly Patrick
Military.com Writer
It was May 1943, and the young man in his $54 dress blues just wanted to get away from base and the stress of wartime, take some liberty, and see his family. But when he got to Cleveland, Pfc. R.J. Wood was arrested and charged with impersonating a Marine...
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