My yearly Memorial Day post .... My uncle Ray who I never got to meet....
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Ray was with the 28th Marines and we lost him when they stormed the beach at Iwo Jima. His brothers of the 28th went on to take Mt. Suribachi and produce the most iconic image from WWII. It is Ray's sacrifice that compels us all to FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!! And it is the debt we owe Ray that fuels our demand for ACCOUNTABILITY from the demon scum politicians guilty of treason for the attempt to destroy everything Ray died for. God bless you Ray .... WE THE PEOPLE will never forget!
May God forever bless and comfort your Uncle Ray for his sacrifice.
May your Uncle Ray rest in peace.
AMEN
I give my thanks and gratitude to your uncle Ray for his service to our country.
Semper Fidelis to all Marines on this Memorial Day.
All my family members, going way back, survived their wars except one. A mountain of a man. He took out dozens of Indians in the French and Indian war before succumbing. There is a monument to him in Pennsylvania.
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What a beautiful man! 🇺🇲 Happy Memorial Day
God Bless this warrior!
My little brother was about as lucky as it gets. His PTSD from his Marine service in Iraq is so bad, he doesn't remember anything from his 6 months there or how he got his scars. His Marine buddies won't tell him what happened either. They just tell him they can't believe he survived
Ptsd is in part from memories. How is he he remembers nothing? I wish I could remember nothing.
As I said, he's lucky. He was diagnosed with severe PTSD. He lost 6 months of memory. His Marine buddies were advised to not say a word about what happened because he might start to remember. He has scars all over his body, has to have tumors removed every 6 months or so (they're from shrapnel), had a detached retina and missing a large part of his intestines. He doesn't remember a thing.
Praying for him. It’s brave men like him that keep our country safe and protected from our enemies. May God bless him.
He's happy as can be and has zero memory of how he got some service ribbons citations.
For your family’s sacrifice and all the Uncle Rays that never came home- may we always remember and strive to do better and be better and never surrender to the path of complacency or corruption. May we always find the strength to fight the good fight no matter the battle ground.They gave their all and THEY deserve our best.
Deja vu...again!
Think I've celebrated with Uncle Ray for 3 (maybe 4?) years now!
WEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.....I just love the posts of his Uncle Ray because it is a STARK REMINDER that someone gave something to this nation to include and up to----HIS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hand Salute to Uncle Ray...(30 yr retired Military)!!!!!
KEEP Posting...I always love to see you're post of you're Uncle Ray...Tango Yankee!!!!!!!
(Thank you)!!!
I agree! Look forward to honoring Uncle Ray in our hearts! Such a beautiful young face full of promise for the future...💔🙏🤍
God bless his memory and his Service! 🫡
PTSD never goes away. Neither does survivor's guilt. If there is any day out there to remind you of it, this is that day. There is no greater gift than to lay your life down for your country, family and fellow Brothers. I will never be complete until I join them, then we can all sit around and say "it's all good, it was always for good."
Semper Fidelis/ Semper Fortis/ Semper Paratus/ This We'll Defend/ Fly-Fight-Win/ Semper Supra/
From an anime/manga, but it applies to this and many similar stories, your uncle did his best and is now at ease until God calls his name for the last fight. Thank you for not forgetting your uncle
"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth. But the world isn't perfect, and the law is incomplete. Equivalent Exchange doesn't encompass everything that goes on here, but I still choose to believe in its principle, that all things do come at a price, that there's an ebb and a flow, a cycle, that the pain we went through did have a reward, and that anyone who's determined and perseveres will get something of value in return, even if it's not what they expected. I don't think of Equivalent Exchange as a law of the world anymore. I think of it as a promise, between my brother and me. A promise that, someday, we'll see each other again"
My father died in July 1970 in Vietnam. A few men from his platoon told me they were shocked that he had passed away cause he was laughing and yelling I'm going home, when the coppers came in to get the solders who were hurt. He was shot in the chest, and he laid in a medic hospital bed and got pneumonia passing away 3 days later. I wish I could have known him, just to hear his voice, maybe in heaven...
I lost a cousin to 'Nam ..... agent orange gave him cancer and he died very young. He became a recluse when he got home ..... shunned the world and lived for his wife and kids.
I have met 2 men in my area with agent orange, they both died from it. Very terrible cancer to have and our own Government did it.
Thank you all for the kind words for Uncle Ray's memory. I also want to thank you all, my brothers and sisters in arms, for being here on this journey. Since the early days of reddit and before .... WWG1WGA! God bless you all:)