What an insightful story. My uncle John( Jack) Conway died on Iwo Jima. He had five brothers who served I will share this with my grandchildren. Thank you .🇺🇸

What a great story especially when you said that you had never seen the ocean , I remember as a 17 year old in jan. 1967 for my first ride in a airplane going to Oakland Ca. on my way to Vietnam I got my first look at the ocean from 35000 ft in the air.I spent 27mo. 19days there and still couldn't buy beer when I got home. But listening to you I knew my dad was in the Army and landed on Luzon and some other Islands including Japan. He never ever talked about his experiences at all. What more I received a bronze star in Vietnam and after he died I got his DD-214 and he had received 2 Bronze stars. When I seen that I couldn't believed my eyes, he knew I received one but he never said a word.

@carolecarr5210

Жыл бұрын

Your Dad, & you have my ultimate respect. He must have been extremely traumatized if he wouldn't even talk with you.

@scottrackley4457

9 ай бұрын

Wasn't much he could say. "I have two" doesn't work, he was proud of you, no rain on the parade. Might have said something if you got a second, then again probably not.

Great video. My Dad served in the Marine Corps during WWII and remained silent about it. This gentleman found peace and reconciliation. What a powerful statement that was.

Very powerful story of grit, determination, survival and then peace, love and reconciliation.

My dad was on a USMC troop ship sitting in San Diego harbor waiting to leave for Iwo Jima. He and two other guys got called off the boat because their shot records weren't up to date. While they're on shore, the boats left. My dad and the two guys missed the entire battle and caught a later ship to Japan to clean up near Nagasaki.

@roderickstockdale1678

7 ай бұрын

Replacement group?

@JamieSmith-fz2mz

7 ай бұрын

@@roderickstockdale1678 I don’t know the correct terminology for the group he went with. I just know they caught a later boat and missed the battle altogether.

This was a generation which we owe so mush. God bless.

The greatest generation, thank you for your service

My Grandpa was a WW2 Veteran, in the European front. He was an Army Airborne Paratrooper behind enemy lines in Italy. He was not injured and he made 11 jumps.He made it through the War, but he didn't talk about it and I respected him and never talked about it with him. He saw a lot and it wasn't meant to be talked about. A lot of pain. Freedom isn't free, thank you all military veterans and active service members of all branches of the military for your service. God bless you and your families and God bless AMERICA 🇺🇸. LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE, BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOM. 🙏🇺🇸❤.

My Dad PFC Buring Beam, 4th Marines 25th Bat. Blue Beach One--he died in the VA hospital in 97--his last moments of life on this Earth was spent reliving fighting the Japanese on Iwo .God bless teh Marines and please never forget! Thank you for this video.

My Uncle John was in the 26th Regiment, 5th Marines. Amazing I would find this video of a great American who served with him. Outstanding story

Thank you David Greene for putting your life on the line for our country.

Proudly they served , proudly we will remember them .

I served a year on Iwo in 1954 it was an anniversary of ten yrs the phototografer that took the famous photo of the flag raising was there. That was years ago I'm now 90 and it's great to see the now photos my how things have changed. We lived in quancet huts now they have barracks.

@Dr.Pepper001

Жыл бұрын

I heard that the Japanese have closed Iwo Jima to visitors except for a short period each year. Seems a damn shame that Americans are told they can't go to the island when they want to, considering the high price we paid to take it from the Japanese. I was in the Corps in the 60s and was stationed on Okinawa for 13 months. Soon after I left the Japanese took possession of the island and have sought to remove most traces of the U.S. military and culture.

I had a neighbor when I was in high school who fought on Iwo Jima. As a souvenir he brought home a canteen filled with sand from the beach where he landed. He was a big influence on me and he was happy when I joined the Corps in 1964.

My husband and I met Dave and his wife Marian when the four of us camped in Periwinkle RV Park on Sanibel Island. probably in 1993. We got together every year for many years - as long as they continued to come down to their condominium. About 10 years ago when Dave and Marian were no longer coming to Florida, they had their daughter give me some of the shells that they had collected on Sanibel so we could use them in the Sanibel Shell Club. I still have one of the boxes and use it for my "sewing box." It is a box that was used by one of their Japanese friends to send Dave and Marian some cookies. I kept it because it was a very sturdy cardboard box and because I knew the story behind it.

Sir, I can never thank you enough for your service. May God bless you always!!! ✝️🇺🇸✝️

I can only sit in awe as I listen to this. My grandfather was there but never talked about it. That generation was cut from a totally different cloth than those that came after. Humbling, as some have described it. I'm not so sure that words can even describe it completely, the feeling you experience. This was an amazing piece. Thank you.

These men are pearls in a lost and dying world. I'm glad too be old enough too have known them.

I had a grandfather and a step grandfather who both served in WWII who never talked about the war and it breaks my heart that I never got to hear their story

Lovely man. There are other countries that have combined memorial services with their former enemies. Particularly Australia and New Zealand have a combined service on 25th April each year with Turkey, commemorating the allied landings at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915.

My Uncle Raymond died several days after he was wounded on Iwo Jima. May they all rest in peace. They are with God and at peace.🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

My Uncle Benny Buffi was a Marine. I know he was a teenager when he went in and I know he was on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He never spoke about that time until I found a photo album and I asked him about it because I found pictures of him with friends or simple things like him getting a haircut from a fellow Marine etc. I found a picture of him with a large group of men. I noticed there was a very tall man on one side of the group squatting down and I mentioned this to him and he told me that he was decapitated during a Japanese attack and he was obviously emotional about it even though it was 1983 , 42 years later. His voice broke as he told me about it. Uncle Benny was called up for Korea and retired from the Corp in the late 60’s. He was a heck of a goodman . I always think about him .

The LCVP with the 12 on the bow ramp is from the Attack Cargo Ship USS Libra. She was in the Guadalcanal operation as well as others. She earned nine battle stars for World War II service. She ended her days when she was as sold as scrap, 17 April 1985, to Andover Shipping Co. I was a Marine from 1962 until 1966. All the ships that I served on as landing party--(from boats, AMTRACs, or helicopters)---and there were nine of them, are now either scrap, made into a reef, or sunk as targets. When I was in G Company, 2/2 our company Gunny, Charles Dean, was an Iwo vet. Sic semper gloria mundi. And Semper Fidelis to those Marines that preceded me or have served since then.

@Dr.Pepper001

Жыл бұрын

Our time in the Corps overlapped. I was in from 1964 to 1968. I spent 17 days on a ship with 800 other Marines and 1,200 Sailors going from San Diego to Southeast Asia. The ship was the USS Simon B. Buckner. It was sold for scrap in 1997. Semper Fi, Marine.

Words of experience and wisdom.

thank you for your service sir from a desert storm vet god bless

Excellent video and thank you for your service sir!! 🇺🇸

Thank you sir.

Wow! Thanks for sharing and for your service.

Just beautiful.

Thank you

Thank you so much for sharing this piece of history

A moving and inspiring story. Thank you for sharing

Wonderful interview.

Great short history lesson on the importance of island to both sides. Glad to hear that you sharing your story, experience, forgiveness with kids.

Thank you for your service, Marine. Your generation gave birth to my generation. It's my opinion that your generation of Americans saved all of humanity from Hitler and the mess he was creating in the world. Semper Fidelis! Andy McKane, 18 June 2022.

My uncle Billy Joe Fox was there with the 5th Marines 28th division as a forward observer radio man who called in artillery coordinates to the ships. He had a Navajo code talker assigned to him. He didn't talk about the war for 50 yrs until he got help and it all came out. These men saved the world. God bless them all

Sir, if you are still on this planet and reading comments, thank you.. from the bottom of my heart.. from a Canadian, you changed and kept our lives peaceful.. the fact i'm here even just typing this is because of brave men like you. I truly hope you realize how much the US, Canada, France .. everyone.. is thankful for everything you did for us.

Superb video and story, thanks.

Beautiful presentation thank you sir and to all those that contributed to it’s making.

Semper Fi. Thanks to all our Veterans who served.

What an amazing man.

Great video showing the expierence of war and above all reconciliation. Thanks for the sacrifice you did and kept us free. Greetings from Mexico City.

You’re a good man! God bless you sir!

Without reconsiliation there is only eternal hate...eternal blindness, and the deprication off humaity. USN Ret.

🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏 Thank you for sharing

Incredible video

What an amazing story

Thank you ❤🇺🇸👍

Thank you David Greene.

Snappy salute to our WWII Veterans Thank you all for your service 🇵🇭

Great story

What a great generation of men who served our country with honor and respect. Thank you Sir!

This right here is GREAT stuff..solute soldier from Dallas Tx..I’m an ex felon but mann it wld mean a lot to me if I cld visit one day where u once dwelled

It’s crazy how they can figure out who the flag and swords belonged to. My grandma was captured in Poland and was a slave for a German family until they were liberated by the Americans. My cousin in the early 2000’s somehow reconnected with relatives of the family my grandma was a slave for. She said their son was in the SS which I always found interesting.

tears

May god bless you sir !

So sad god Bless them all 😢

It has to be!!! Peace and reconciliation

This fortunate soldier-citizen was a gift from Almighty God to the world. Listen to his words, his cry. Never again, people…..never again. Nothing is worth the loss of all of these young men, now women, also. God bless us all. Amen.

@chriswhittle-vg2yt

Ай бұрын

*Marine

Semper Fi. Old school. Marine

Peace and reconciliation

The greatest generation of all time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

😢😢 this is powerful I wish my grate grandpa or Großvater was still alive so I could here is war story

Made in America thankyou for your sacrifice forever and always

T.Y 🙏🙏

My girlfriend works in a veteran home and there are a few who fought in ww2

I don't know if my uncle ever found that feeling of reconcilliation. I would like to think that he did. But I really do not know. It's possible that he may never have.

Thank you sir for your story and your service..i Just Wish now that mr Putin and Who else wants war to see this short video...

people are people!

My father, a naval aviator came home with letters from Saipan that were to be sent back to Japan by various soldiers. In 1990, he wanted to send these letters back where they were meant to go. Impossible to read, we took them to a local university to get them translated to start the process. The translator there demanded 5.00 per symbol and there were hundreds of symbols. We gave up.So sorry

@MuckSpreader99

2 жыл бұрын

Go to your local Japanese store or restaurant and ask for a translation.

@RogelioEscobar

Жыл бұрын

Someone can help I'm sure!!! Contact a US University instead! Someone can help you translate it! Make that happen!! I pray you do, help finish your father's mission!!

I don't know how these veterans can go back without being heavily medicated. Does PTSD get better with time?

SF Marine

Jesus/God brought me into this world in Waterloo Iowa as well.

In all fact. America was not the enemy. The Japanese were.

Come to al Islam n success

Shooting animals is disgusting. But thanks for your service. I hope you stopped hunting like EB Sledge did.

@Rakkasan-vr8xt

2 жыл бұрын

Dumbest comment anyone could ever made.

If i can give you "Like" a thousands time, i would. "Make Peace Through Reconciliation", Its an exact things i need at this point in my life... Thank you for a wonderful story. ❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻