Sledgehammer - Old Breed Marine Part 3

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[marksee123]

My Father, James See, fought on Peleliu. He fought in the Marshal, Gilbert, and Solomon islands. I don't know how he survived. He was a great guy! I'm very proud of him!

[bc1969214]

Mohawk, check out Ken Burns documentary The War. Willie Rushton is interviewed there. He was a black Marine at Peleliu. Montford Point Marines is another good search for more history. These were the first black Marines.

[LONHKIRBYTX007]

my father was driving the boats that launched the marines on the beach, did the same thing at okinawa.

[LukasM42]

@Rikki0 Fear that is damned near paralyzing, that makes your bowels want to release. The shaking of exploding, the sound you FEEL as well as see, making you realize that the human body, as well as a human life, is incredibly frail and helpless against such things.

[motoshop07]

Sledgehammer married a great woman,God bless all the marines

[thegrimreaper541]

@trurlo yeah he said "im not gonna leave my buddies in k company"

[trurlo]

Could somebody tell me what Col. Alexander is saying at 3:01? "I'm not [...] my buddies in K Company". Could that be "I'm not gonna leave my buddies"??

[CSATexan]

@Rikki0

Well Said

Semper Fi

Desert Storm A Co 1/2 2nd Mar Div

[Rikki0]

@meronmotors No, she wasn't a bitch. She just didn't understand. Unless you've been there you can't. You can't imagine fear. It's something that you have to live. It can't be explained. That's one of the reasons so few vets will really talk about it. There is just no point because the person they are talking to can't feel what they felt so they just can't understand. She meant no harm.

Semper Fi

Vietnam 69-71 5th Marines 2/1

[meronmotors]

The wife is laughing out of waking her husband up the way his friends did in war, She has no sensitivity to it. She just tried it for fun to see what would happen. I would have been furouis if my wife did that to me. She had no right to do that. The fear he must have felt of returning to the pacific when he woke up must have been terrible. What a bitch

[aMarinedaughter]

@marksee123 You have every right to be proud! Peleliu was the name of the street we lived on, at Camp LeJeune, when I was a little girl, but I didn't realize that the name came from an almost unbelievably brutal battle in WWII. It is amazing that any of them survived for very long. My dad was a little too young for WWII and enlisted in Sept. 1945, two months before his 17th birthday.