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eric_bean34
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Re: Long time no see... AGAIN!
Posted: 13 May 08 3:49 PM
   
 barcelonablom wrote
 Trang wrote

Well Met,

Welcome back, I new blood around here (february I think) but great to have some more starfist fans. Im a former marine, '86 to '96, Airwing also, last five in worked on harriers. If Ya get a chance, eric and I created a myspace page for StarFist. http://www.myspace.com/starfist_3rd_herd, adding to it here and there, helping to pass the word.

Welcome back,

Be Well, Fair Day.

Trang



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Re: Long time no see... AGAIN!
Posted: 13 May 08 7:12 PM
Thanks :D
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Re: Long time no see... AGAIN!
Posted: 13 May 08 9:45 PM
Skinkie, me lad, the retaking of the Philippines was an army op, not Marine. Aside from some guerrilla activity during the Japanese occupation, the only battle the Marines fought in the Philippines was the defense of Corregidor, at the end of which my old regiment, the Fourth Marines, suffered a humiliation unique in the annals of the USMC. When MacArthur ran away, he ordered all the defending units to surrender to the Japanese. That made the Fourth Marines the only USMC unit to ever lose its colors to the enemy. When I was in the Fourth Marines, we still hadn't forgiven MacArthur for that, we thought he should have allowed our predecessors to head for the hills and continue the fight as irregulars, as many of the Marines wanted to. Even though that was a full generation after the battle, which had taken place before I was born, we had at least one veteran of the battle and the Bataan Death March; the first battalion sergeant major I had was a Corregidor/Bataan Death March veteran, one of the few who survived the entire war. All of us junior men both feared and respected that Marine.
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Re: Long time no see... AGAIN!
Posted: 14 May 08 4:25 AM
Some of those Death March vets were still around when I was young in the service.  Eric?  Write Clint Eastwood, yould you?  Tell him that his next project should be a movie about the Bataan Death March, script in English, please, balance that piece of shit, "Letters From Iwo Jima."
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Re: Long time no see... AGAIN!
Posted: 14 May 08 6:00 AM
That would be a much better movie. The Great Raid was ok.
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