Sacrifices made: 55 years ago....

[Ripsnort]

Specifically for the U.S. folks, lest we forget, the sacrifices made 55 years ago from tomorrow:

Hardest, and most costly operation in the history of the US Marine Corp (19,938 casualties, 4,630 killed or missing in action)

"Let Freedom Ring..."

   

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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
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(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Rip1~Warbirds~)
 
"Opfer mussen gebracht werden"
— Otto Lilienthal

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[Saintaw]

Ripsnort, we've been on the SAME website today, LOL ! I took this picture today as well  

indeed 55 years, My grandad was there...

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[Ripsnort]

Salute your Grand pappy for serving, Saw!  My mothers brother (my uncle) gave the supreme sacrifice on the black sands of Iwo Jima...I just hope that the kids playing in the school yards, skiing, riding bikes, whatever, will remember why they have the freedoms that they have today, because of the sacrifices of those who have fallen.

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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~ XO
(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Rip1~Warbirds~)
 
"Opfer mussen gebracht werden"
— Otto Lilienthal

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[artoo]

My uncle was a Marine.  He was in every landing in the Pacific.  Every whoopee one, without a scratch.  And snuffed it on Iwo.  As I understand it, he and his buddies were convinced the war would kill them.  He got so close.

[weazel]

<S> To all who paid the ultimate price.
 

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[Mox]

Salute!

Mox
The Wrecking Crew

[BigJim]

Heh Saint My DAD was there "3rd Marine Division 21st Marines Company I" they took the airfield in the center of the island.  He would be proud to see you guys remembering and it makes me miss him alittle more even tho he has been gone since 1983.

BigJim

[niklas]

sorry ripsnort, but you use the sentence of otto lilienthal in an absolutly wrong context!!! How can you post this sentence of this flight pioneer and show a fighter, designed to kill, at the same time??

"opfer müssen gebracht werden" were the last words of otto lilienthal before he died after his accident. He never thought, when he spoke these words, at war, killing etc.

His only intention was to get behind the magic of flying- not killing! He wanted to solve the secret of the birds, and he managed to do so up to a certain point!

I think it was Orville Wright who said in the time of WWI: We dreamed the most beautiful dream a man can dream- what have you made out of it? a nightmare

You understand??
niklas

[Ripsnort]

Uhhh, Niklas, I think you're guilty of what the Media has a tendancy to try to do to the masses, read something into my sig that's not there...the last words "Sacrifices must be made.." indeed is in relation to the EVOLVEMENT of flight, war is part of it, but certainly has to do with sacrifices of the human race in achieving where it has progressed today...

Don't read something that's not there, Just because I have a TA 152H and Ottos last words 47 years before the developement of the TA 152H doesn't mean I'm trying to link them...understand me?

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Brian "Ripsnort" Nelson
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~ XO
(Formerly VF-101 Grim Reapers~Rip1~Warbirds~)
 
"Opfer mussen gebracht werden"
— Otto Lilienthal

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[spinny]

As some of you may know, there was some argument about the placement/height of the Air Force memorial in DC. Some felt that it would overshadow the Marine Corps Memorial, which, if you don't know, is a great bronze rendering of the flag raising on Iwo. Myself, as an ex-Marine, I never had a problem with that. The Marines took that island to provide a safe haven for B-29 crews who couldn't make it back their original fields. The final number of B-29 crew who were saved by being able to land on Iwo Jima was almost equal to the number of Marine casualities, about 20,000.



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[Downtown]

They are putting an Air Force Memorial at Arlington?

Warning for the Future, if you use part of the Gettysberg address anywhere, you will cause me to expound on the subject.  Its Kinda like Cartman and the Styx Song "Come Sail Away."

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