Non-Profit Group- History Flight- Gives Family What They’ve Been Waiting For For 70 Years

6 Comments on Non-Profit Group- History Flight- Gives Family What They’ve Been Waiting For For 70 Years

1. Semper Fi.

2. I had the opportunity and honor to know a Tarawa Marine. He was the father of a high-school friend. One of the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever known.

   To this day I can only imagine what he was thinking as he waded hundreds of yards, unprotected, across the shallow reef of Tarawa, while his buddies were being picked off by Jap rifle & machine-gun fire.

   Semper Fi, indeed.

3. 500 marines yet to be identified and recovered from that battle.

   I get the feeling like the military brass at the time wanted to put that one behind them as soon as possible.

4. I attended this event. The story behind the “lost” cemetaries is an infuriating one. The fallen Marines were buried by their comrades, the graves were marked and then they moved onwards across the Pacific, fighting the Japanese. The current US military on the island needed the area of the cemetaries for aircraft tarmac. There was resistance to this move but, the tarmac became reality, the grave markers were removed and the official records reported the bodies were buried at sea. You can smell the government cover up.

5. Bayuowulf….
   Government cover-up. I always thought that was something fairly new; something not done back then.
   I guess I need to quit giving things the benefit of the doubt, especially where the ‘govmint’ is concerned ‘

6. Here is a little more detail.

   http://claybonnymanevans.com/?page_id=5