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Iwo Jima, Memorial Day: Remembering the Fallen & Honoring the Forgotten

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Uploaded by on May 30, 2010

The true purpose of the Memorial Day is to remember the fallen - yet we might also take time this Memorial Day to honor to forgotten - those survivors like Sgt. Padell HQ-2-24 who left a part of them on those far away battlefields that now lay silent. The bond was so great that they shared, that their last wish was to be returned to be at one with the ghosts of the past. Here Sgt. Padelskas (Padell) HQ-2-24 is returned to a tiny Pacific island battlefield known as Iwo Jima.

Sgt. Padell's final resting place is sacred ground, perched high atop Mount Suribachi, overlooking the same stretch of beach that he and so many others landed upon Feb 19th, 1945.

The bond of these WWII Marines was so great that Sergeant Padell never forgot the men that he served with on an 8 square mile volcanic island so very far away from home. It is the Padell families wish to share this video with others that they might remember and honor their own family members who fell, and have fallen in service of our country.

*Please note that while I am wearing the uniform of a WWII Marine, I myself was not a Marine. I did so to honor Sgt. Padell, and those who fell during the 36 day battle, sincerely. HG

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  • true american heros.....the marines at iwo jima!!!!

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