re: #39 Taqyia2Me

My dad was Navy - South Pacific, came back from there deaf. He only spoke of his service once, very late in his life, and briefly at that. He was using one of those scopes to help figure out the distance his destroyer’s big guns had to shoot while they were providing support for a Marine landing somewhere. He said, “I saw those Marines there trying to get ashore, and arms and legs flying all over the place.”
Talk about sacrifice…

The more I read abut battles such as Tarawa, Peileilu, Saipan, Iwo, Okinawa, and the liberation of the Philipines, I am amazed that everybody did not just run away. Horrifying stories of having to literally kill every Japanese soldier because they refused to surrender. Imagine serving on a ship during a kamakaze attack?