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Love this web site and the effort that Sgt Grit and his crew put forth is awesome. You cannot deny it……..the Corps is a unique fraternity! Just wanted to add my "two cents" to the push to do something to support all of our troops – no matter the branch of service! Here I am, a former member of the Corps from 1959 to 1965 (Platoon 285, 2nd RTB, Parris Island, SC) just trying to do something to add my voice to the call to support all those in uniform.
August 15th, 1981 I stepped on a plane for the first time to Parris Island South Carolina into a world I knew nothing about. What a wonderful world it was. I left the Marine Corps on February 2nd, 1987. I became a mother of three and “Once a Marine, Always a Marine”. My children knew about the Marine Corps. They all insisted that they would never be Marines. At one point in life I believed them. But, it was my foundation and other than my faith, it was what kept my head above water in the bad times and what I could attribute to my good times.
Semper Fi Marines. I have a special Prayer request for a fellow Marine that is in the hospital fighting a battle of his own right now. His name is SSGT Manford James Kenner. Jim is one of the one niners from the Viet Nam era. He received 6 Purple Hearts in his life with the Corps. His blood has stopped producing what ever it does to make more blood. He fell at a Veterans Day function and has been going down hill ever since. Enclosed is a picture of him. He is Marine to core. I told him he had to get well cause his orders hasn’t been cut yet for that trip to guard Heavens gate. This picture was taken last year at graduation. My husband and Jim Kenner and another fellow vet received their high school diploma’s through our local school district. The lovely lady standing next to Jim is his wife Becky Kenner. Of course they were the highlight of the evening cause all of them were in their dress uniforms. Needless to say the standing ovations and rousing applause brought tears to everyone. Please join me and our friends and fellow Marines in Prayer for a very special person in our lives. Thanks.
Ted and Hal, Bob went up TODAY to again get this picture, that he first saw on November 28th, 1960, exactly 10 years to the day when he was working on a telephone line and looked down across the street and saw a headstone, knowing the type it was. He went over and it was none other than his buddy who went over with him and their ship landed on November 10th, ’50, the Corps, birthday. He has pictures of him and other KIA’s that he is sending to post on the KWP., site, ALL with him in his unit that was called up from Pittsburgh.
We recently went to the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington D.C. My sons, Cpl. Robert Jackson, 20 and Cpl. David Jackson 21, stand in front of the memorial. Their older brother, First Class Petty Officer Daniel Jackson was on duty in the Persian Gulf so he was unable to go with us. We are from the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona—Ira Hayes’s home.
I am one of the lucky ones, my Marine is home with me. He would not agree. He would rather be overseas with his “brothers”. I met and married my Marine one year out of service. He is 90% disabled and gave 8.5 years of his life to the Marine Corps. He wore his dress blues for the last time the day of our wedding (picture attached). I am very proud of him and of our Military but I am partial to the Marine Corps.
