Author: SgtGrit

My Dad the Marine

Hi Kristy

  Thank you!   I am actually writing you from Langley OK. I got a call on Monday morning that my Dad had taken a turn for the worse and I should probably head down to Oklahoma so I did an all nighter and got into Fairland Tuesday morning! I walked into to his room and there he was lying sleeping with his Marine Corps blanket!   Thanks again.

Marine Issued Cards

G'day Sgt. Grit,   I have been enjoying the stories behind the older Liberty cards that have been shown, very much.  While I have no liberty card today, I do have a Geneva Convention Card issued to all FMF Corpsmen going into RVN.  (To this day, I detest the word "Medic"!)  Mine was handed to me just minutes before we flew the several hours in a C-130 from Okinawa to Da Nang air strip in early 1966.  The second photo shows the inside of a leather wallet given as a Christmas present to any who wanted one in the Third Division.  The outside of the wallet showed a gold Eagle, Globe and Anchor.  It has many Grunt miles on it, as do most of us today… but I thought you might like to see these items.   Doc john Patrick 1964-68

Quotes from the Movie ‘Sands of Iwo Jima”

Pfc. Al Thomas: That's war.
Pfc. Charlie Bass: What's war?
Pfc. Al Thomas: Trading real estate for men.
 

During live fire training a Marine recruit accidently lets a grenade slip out of his hand and it rolls toward an unsuspecting platoon waiting their turn] Sgt. Stryker: Grenade. Hit the deck.
[the platoon runs, except for Conway, who is reading a love letter and has to be tackled to safety by Stryker when the grenade goes off] Sgt. Stryker: You idiot. When are you gonna wake up? You wanna see that dame again, keep your mind on your work.
Al Thomas: You may not know this, boy, but you just got your life saved.
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