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2020-02-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Battle of Iwo Jima's Last Living Medal of Honor Recipient Still Working for Military Families
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-24 07:19|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Duty, honor, the acts of kindness.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-02-24 10:21||   2020-02-24 10:21|| Front Page Top

#2 When the National WWII Museum, a/k/a the D-Day Museum, was started, the best thing about it was that you could talk to a lot of vets about their experiences. Not so much anymore. (The good news is that I drive past the museum most mornings, and there is usually a line of parents leading their children into the museum. So the vets won't be forgotten, at least by some of us.)
Posted by Matt 2020-02-24 11:34||   2020-02-24 11:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Matt, is that the museum in New Orleans? Do they have some kind of oral history archive of recorded interviews with vets that visitors can listen to / history students can research?
Posted by Lex 2020-02-24 11:40||   2020-02-24 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Lex -- Yes, it's in New Orleans, and basically started with Stephen Ambrose, a history professor at the University of New Orleans, collecting oral histories from vets (including German veterans.) The Museum has several stations at which you can listen to selected oral histories, but also has an online archive here.
Posted by Matt 2020-02-24 11:58||   2020-02-24 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Super, thanks!
- L.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-24 12:30||   2020-02-24 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6  armed with a flamethrower and with only four riflemen covering him --

If the fact that he is still alive doesn't convince you that God is real nothing will.
Posted by AlanC 2020-02-24 13:30||   2020-02-24 13:30|| Front Page Top

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