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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:08:40 PM EST
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 Attached FileDuring the 74th Reunion of Honor on Iwo Jima this weekend. Incredible experience being on that island. Collected volcanic ash from Green Beach. Anyone else from ARFCOM there? |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:09:51 PM EST
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Pretty cool
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:11:46 PM EST
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I wasn't there, but my dad was (Seabee on the beach.) Visiting there is on my bucket list for sure. Cool picture!
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:12:32 PM EST
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That would be a trip to remember. I watched a show where a couple of guys went through some of the Japanese tunnels. There was used equipment strewn everywhere. It was weird to see stuff left just as it was in 1945.
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:19:26 PM EST
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The invasion beaches are about 45 feet above sea level now. Trying to resize some pics to post
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:20:26 PM EST
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I heard it was very hard to get to Iwo. Is there any truth to that?
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:25:49 PM EST
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Hard??? Hell yes it is hard.
Submit passport months in advance. Japanese control the island, so they allow visitors one day a year. Flew to Guam. Took charter United flight to Iwo Jima. Japanese quarantine inspectors checked us all for fevers with an infrared camera. Then customs boarded and confiscated our passports (they did stamp it with a Iwo To stamp which is the new name of the island). Had about 6 hours to visit. No ground transportation unless you are a Veteran of the campaign. Walk everywhere. Marines and Corpsmen provide water stops about every 2 miles. 10 mile round trip from Suribachi to airport . |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:27:44 PM EST
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Kudos!
I conquered Mt. Sriracha recently. 
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:28:25 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:29:29 PM EST
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:29:57 PM EST
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Sacred ground.
Cool picture. Much respect. |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:30:04 PM EST
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Hard??? Hell yes it is hard. Submit passport months in advance. Japanese control the island, so they allow visitors one day a year. Flew to Guam. Took charter United flight to Iwo Jima. Japanese quarantine inspectors checked us all for fevers with an infrared camera. Then customs boarded and confiscated our passports (they did stamp it with a Iwo To stamp which is the new name of the island). Had about 6 hours to visit. No ground transportation unless you are a Veteran of the campaign. Walk everywhere. Marines and Corpsmen provide water stops about every 2 miles. 10 mile round trip from Suribachi to airport . |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:30:08 PM EST
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:40:17 PM EST
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Really cool OP!
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:40:52 PM EST
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Thank you for posting this!
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:41:48 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:42:16 PM EST
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Would be an appropriate place for a replica of the USMC monument.
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:43:33 PM EST
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Hard??? Hell yes it is hard. Submit passport months in advance. Japanese control the island, so they allow visitors one day a year. Flew to Guam. Took charter United flight to Iwo Jima. Japanese quarantine inspectors checked us all for fevers with an infrared camera. Then customs boarded and confiscated our passports (they did stamp it with a Iwo To stamp which is the new name of the island). Had about 6 hours to visit. No ground transportation unless you are a Veteran of the campaign. Walk everywhere. Marines and Corpsmen provide water stops about every 2 miles. 10 mile round trip from Suribachi to airport . |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:45:39 PM EST
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My uncle was in 3rd Marines and in the initial landing and attack. He was a combat soldier and made it through without a scratch. He sent my grandparents, his parents, an 8X10 photo of the official Rosenthal version of the flag raising that has Rosenthal's signature and stamped "Official Photograph-3D Mar. Div.". Obviously Rosenthal's signature isn't an ink on photo original, but it is the photo that Marines were able to procure or was given to 3rd Marines.
Interestingly a receipt is glue to the back of the cardboard rear from Beeville Lumber Company, Beeville TX, who did the framing of the pic for his parents. It's dated October 1945, to his parents. It shows two photos for 70 cents each for a total of $1.40 for the framing service. I wish I knew what the other pic was. It was left to me by my grandfather, and I've cherished it. It's in my gun/reloading room on the wall. |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:47:39 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology Good shit, op! |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:48:53 PM EST
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For real? Go amuse yourself in one of the AOC leghumpers threads. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:49:04 PM EST
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Hat tip
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:49:08 PM EST
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The invasion beaches are about 45 feet above sea level now. Trying to resize some pics to post
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:50:20 PM EST
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Wow, always wanted to see that place in person.
Sacred ground indeed. Thanks for sharing! |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:51:18 PM EST
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That's pretty fucking cool OP. I'm jealous.
I hate when people have to take a big shit in cool threads like this. |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:52:47 PM EST
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GLOBAL WARMING! |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:53:05 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology 
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:53:57 PM EST
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/356991/IMG_4751_JPG-891611.JPG Green and Red Beaches from Mt. Suribachi |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:54:27 PM EST
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:56:03 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:56:32 PM EST
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Wow you are so original........ aoc can go fuck herself with a sword for all I care. What’s next, are you going to ask me to change your mind? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology 
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:56:47 PM EST
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Very cool OP!!
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:58:01 PM EST
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Wow, pretty cool, did not know the Japs controlled the island with an iron grip.
May have try that, I was on Guam for 2 years and never even thought about going to Iwo Jima. |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 10:59:24 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology 
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:01:08 PM EST
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Thank you for posting this! |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:03:11 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology LOL in your trying to sound tough on the internet shit talking the OP did you forget the whole part about the island being blown up in ww2? God damn you failed hard buddy. Better luck next time! |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:04:00 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:13:17 PM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology Iwo Jima has risen more out of the sea since WW2. Those ships wrecked on the shore used to be further out. |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:15:30 PM EST
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ya did good OP
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:23:18 PM EST
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I was on a mil flight that stopped over there once. I was floored at how small the island was considering it’s history in WW2.
It felt erie to be there where it was peaceful and under Japanese control, but comforting knowing it was in a way still ours too. |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:26:45 PM EST
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Did you see Martha from Fox News there? She was showing off pictures from her trip
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:32:26 PM EST
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Did you get a chance to see the Japanese Memorial Park?
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:33:11 PM EST
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Hard??? Hell yes it is hard. Submit passport months in advance. Japanese control the island, so they allow visitors one day a year. Flew to Guam. Took charter United flight to Iwo Jima. Japanese quarantine inspectors checked us all for fevers with an infrared camera. Then customs boarded and confiscated our passports (they did stamp it with a Iwo To stamp which is the new name of the island). Had about 6 hours to visit. No ground transportation unless you are a Veteran of the campaign. Walk everywhere. Marines and Corpsmen provide water stops about every 2 miles. 10 mile round trip from Suribachi to airport . |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:37:57 PM EST
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:44:25 PM EST
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Wow you are so original........ aoc can go fuck herself with a sword for all I care. What’s next, are you going to ask me to change your mind? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology |
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Posted: 3/26/2019 11:46:14 PM EST
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I heard it was very hard to get to Iwo. Is there any truth to that? |
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Posted: 3/27/2019 1:23:16 AM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology |
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Posted: 3/27/2019 1:44:39 AM EST
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Right there with you brother...my dog tags are up there. Spent much unauthorized time in tunnels under the island, and it's the only jungle I've ever been in. Was a trip finding new cave entrances literally inches away that were completely covered by growth. Over by the tar pit, I tried to go into the "spa" tunnel...the hot wind coming out of that was too intense for me, got about three feet inside and that was all I could take. Another 15-20 feet inside, my flashlight could make out the table and chairs the Japanese had set up--I have no idea how they made it in that far. Good memories of Iwo. The Japanese had a sort of homespun museum they'd made with artifacts found (from both sides). |
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Posted: 3/27/2019 1:53:18 AM EST
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I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of years it took for the earth to make that volcanic ash for you and all the other yahoos to take and destroy the ecology |
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Posted: 3/27/2019 2:17:34 AM EST
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Outstanding, OP.
@texassooner, not so much. Shitting in memorial threads, and this surely is one for anyone associated with the Marine Corps, is frowned upon. |
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Posted: 3/27/2019 2:30:29 AM EST
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Neat.
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