I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2

Today is the 75th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima

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[i]Threescore and fifteen years ago,

On Iwo Jima's scoriac stones

Many a young man bled and died

For country, God or emperor.

Now looking at this desolate isle

Today, but little more remains

Than mostly unkempt monuments

And dreadful artifacts of war,

Rusting where they fell, so long ago.[/i]

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Slade · 56-60, M

Johnny Cash sang a ballad for one of those men...

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soar2newhighs

[image deleted]@Slade just saw something on Facebook about the Australians who were POWs of the Japanese where out of over 2000, only 6 survived. They had a similar March like the Bataan death March. First time I heard of it.

Slade · 56-60, M

@soar2newhighs The Tojos were brutal on all prisoners. As far as POW's go, the Nazis weren't as bad.

Had a neighbor growing up who was a POW of the Nazis. Told my dad it wasn't as bad as he expected

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@Slade

The Nazis treated their Western Allied POWs fairly well.
Their special brutality was reserved for Russians.

I had a distant German relative who was at Stalingrad.
Luckily for him, he came down with typhoid fever and was airlifted out while it was still possible,
and survived the war. Of the 90,000 or so Germans who finally surrendered at Stalingrad, only about 5,000 ever made it back to Germany.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@Slade

PatKirby · M

@Thinkerbell
A man of honor worthy of respect. Is that a dream catcher on his headstone there?

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@PatKirby

Looks like one.