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| type47fan |
 Jun 6 2021, 04:06 PM
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| rjames |
Jun 7 2021, 01:47 PM
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I'm made of metal Group: Members Posts: 3,954 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Shoreline, WA Member No.: 4,467 Region Association: Pacific Northwest
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Loving this thread. The greatest generation, no doubt.
My grandfather landed on Iwo Jima as a Navy corpsman alongside the marines. He lasted only a few days there before shrapnel from an explosion tore him open from near the top of his rib cage to his belly button and was sent home. He lied about his age to enlist so he could be with his older brothers and friends. He rarely talked about any of it other than to joke about the antics of his fellow service men. When I was 30 and apparently not that bright, I thought it would be fun to take him and my grandmother to see Saving Private Ryan when it came out. The film opens with the Allied invasion at Normandy beach. A few minutes into the opening scene I look over and see that my grandfather has a death-grip on my grandmother's hand. He looked like he was holding on for dear life. I'm sure he was reliving whatever hell he had experienced on Iwo. Afterwards, testing the waters bit, I asked him if he liked the movie and he just said flatly "That's pretty much how it was". I felt like the biggest a**hole for bringing him to that movie. |
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