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“Come on, you sons of b****, do you want to live forever?”

Sunday, 27 May 2018, 19:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 20

With the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Belleau Wood right around the corner (June 1-26th), it’s time to get better acquainted with Dan Daly, “the fightinest marine.” Watch

 

20 Comments on “Come on, you sons of b****, do you want to live forever?”

  1. Fighting for American “freedom”? What a joke. WWI got the U.S. involved in a European quagmire that enlarged government and has become a never-ending drain on the U.S. taxpayer. More like fighting for SLAVERY.

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  3. “A veteran is one who gives a blank check to the United States of America. And swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States and obey all lawful orders of the Commander in Chief, even if it means that Veteran’s Life.” Anon.
    When you’re in, you’re in.
    Moe Tom.

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  4. Enjoy Veteran’s day tomorrow all IOTWers. Remember those who are no longer with us. Say a prayer for their families. God Bless America and President Trump!

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  5. We had a “Butter Bars” (2nd Lt.) for a platoon commander in Vietnam, I met him once he was usually MIA either attending a school or in the hospital with malaria, or just TAD for something. Our platoon was usually under the command of an old career Marine Staff Sgt.(I think he acquired that rank several times over the years).

    He was one of those kind of Marines who seemed to be bullet proof you would see him standing up in the middle of a firefight barking orders to command the troops. He was definitely a Marine’s Marine!

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  6. Fantastic story and vid. Thanks DT.

    The earliest amphibious operations were done by these guys…btw.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Continental_Regiment

    He mentioned Daly being at St. Michel – my grandfather was there.

    Daly’s comment at the end made me think of what my Dad on the bridge of a coast guard cutter in ’44 might have thought.

    @ Organgrinder did you ever hear about this story about a Marine cook on Iwo Jima KIA??

    I know the story because he is one of my best buds’ second cousin.

    https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=211640

    https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/7921

    There is a small plaza in his honor in the South Bronx and he is buried in St Raymond’s Cemetery.

    We plan a visit after we attend our town parade.

    #MAGA
    #KAGA2020

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  8. Gunny Dan is 1 of 2 Jarheads to be alive while getting 2 MOHs. And I will brag here – Gunny was a 5th Marine co Skipper when he yelled that. That battle was the turning point of the War. The huns had 12 generals to our zero, null, none! Their men out#d us 9:1 at the start and still 4:1 at the end . But at the end of the battle the Huns were in retreat. Not a Napolianic, throw your weapons down and run like Hell, an orderly, reverse leap frog. The Hun High Command could neither believe, nor understand, how such a thing could happen. They debriefed all 12 Gens. Unsatisfied with their answer they then debriefed the Sgt. Mjrs and Top Sgts. The Sgt Mjrs said those jarheads are Truefel Hunden! In American “Dogs from Hell!”. The high command talked it over and concluded that if an entire Division of Jarheads got to Europe there would be xxx,xxx dead Huns, including lots of gens. They went to Kaiser Bill (Ceaser in American) and said you, Sir, Mean Herr! need to sue for peace. Willy said NEVER! HUNS SO NOT SURRENDER! So the Gen staff did something un Germanic – they secretly negotiated with the Brits. Nov 10 they surrendered; but not officially. They presented the treaty to Willy and said sign it! He refused; knowing he would be a dead man if he stayed Im Duetchland (in Germany) he fled to Denmark. The treaty became legal the next day as Willy’s replacement, knowing the Gens would do him in had he done otherwise, signed it.

    I was a 5 th Marine when I was killing Kalashnikovers for JFK over 50 years ago.

    Most Jarheads today know not why they put that BullDog tat on their arms – But I do! this is why. I fought like The Devil when there because how could I let down the fine, murderous, brave Jarheads f the 5th? To me “Death before Dishonor” was a way of life, no just words.

    Sgt Danny got his first MOH in the Mexican invasion on 1916. Charged Zapata’s army carrying a 50 Cal. What a giant he must have been! And brave to boot!

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  10. I turned 18 in basic training, ‘boot camp’, in the Army. The US Army. So perhaps I’ll ask your pardon for some of my views as I was corrupted at an impressionable age.

    I was trained by veterans of Viet Nam. The ones that survived. It wasn’t even over five years when I showed up. They taught me what they learned to survive on a battlefield. A very different one from what the Army learned out of WWII and Korea. Which the Generals still wanted to teach and the NCO’s knew was a death sentence.

    Later on, I spent time in classrooms and libraries. Case studies from Brigade level operations to squad (about 12 guys) actions.

    Our military has fielded men I am in awe of. Tasked with a job with more hard points than a barbed wire fence, they assumed the tasking and completed what was assigned.

    Set aside the politics of ‘should we?’, because the grunt don’t have that say so. That is those assholes in washington determine that.

    I thank God I was never thrown into that cauldron. For six years, nothing grew to the point of requiring my deployment in the combat arms branch I was assigned to.

    But many of my brothers, before and very shortly after, did so. They wrote new chapters that were recorded within their unit, their Brigade, their Division. The vast majority of which will never be read or even known among the civilian population. The Army records every single member of every unit (I’m sure the other services do also) that dies during combat operations while assigned to that unit. These names are held in trust. The outside world may forget, may lose in time, but we don’t.

    So tomorrow, many of you will offer up a moment for those men. As will I.

    And I thank you for that on behalf of my brothers no longer here. They didn’t nominate me to do that, But I feel OK in this narrow instance speaking in their stead. The nameless, the ones you never heard of, the non-hero grunts I was once a part of.

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  15. “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

    general smedley butler, usmc and two time medal of honor recipient.

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  16. Lazlo thanks every Vet. Only got one kidney so I had to do my fighting and marching fighting wildland fires.
    Today I drove 10 hours doing my job, across the great state of Arizona in complete freedom, unmolested, doing my small business.
    No bandits, or militias accosted me. No gangsters shook me down.
    This is because men and women are out there somewhere protecting my fat opinionated ass.
    I am humbled and grateful that they would give up everything they could ever have, so I can have a pleasant day. Words will not ever be enough.
    All I can do is to try to “Earn this” every day

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  18. I am not a ‘writer’, not am I an ‘educated’ man, so all too often I find that words fail me especially when it comes to displaying my absolute appreciation for those that have served our nation.
    Whether you volunteered or were directed to engage in whatever commitment deemed necessary by your superiors, your service to America is monumental in my humble life-style which would be impossible without your life-threatening contributions.

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