reeshy
08-07-2004, 11:36 PM
I saw this movie tonight for the first time...I thought it was pretty shitty except for the combat scenes,
My uncle and Godfather Maurice, was a Gunny(Gunnery sgt.) during WWII. He joined the Marines in 1937. He served all over the Pacific during the war. He also served in Saipan when it was invaded on June 15, 1944.
He would never talk about the war with us kids. One day, during a barbeque for my father's promotion to Lt. on the Fire Department, he got a little drunk and started talking about the invasion. He talked about landing on the beach and stepping on his friends bodies. He talked about the wholesale use of flamethrowers to burn out Japanese bunkers..He talked about running out of ammo one day and stabbing 3 japanese soldiers that were trying ti kill him and his 2 friends. He talked about buring alot of American bodies.
Where are people like that today?...All I hear is how our way of life sucks and how the government wants to fuck us...These people...My uncle, my Dad all like them just wanted to protect our country and then come home....
BTW, My Uncle Maurice retired from the Corps in 1977 and died the next year ...by himself
[center]<IMG SRC=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/monster6sixty6/guests/resh_sig.jpg>
[center]
[center]I know karate....voodoo too!![center]
My uncle and Godfather Maurice, was a Gunny(Gunnery sgt.) during WWII. He joined the Marines in 1937. He served all over the Pacific during the war. He also served in Saipan when it was invaded on June 15, 1944.
He would never talk about the war with us kids. One day, during a barbeque for my father's promotion to Lt. on the Fire Department, he got a little drunk and started talking about the invasion. He talked about landing on the beach and stepping on his friends bodies. He talked about the wholesale use of flamethrowers to burn out Japanese bunkers..He talked about running out of ammo one day and stabbing 3 japanese soldiers that were trying ti kill him and his 2 friends. He talked about buring alot of American bodies.
Where are people like that today?...All I hear is how our way of life sucks and how the government wants to fuck us...These people...My uncle, my Dad all like them just wanted to protect our country and then come home....
BTW, My Uncle Maurice retired from the Corps in 1977 and died the next year ...by himself
[center]<IMG SRC=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/monster6sixty6/guests/resh_sig.jpg>
[center]
[center]I know karate....voodoo too!![center]