One TOUGH Marine

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Wow............ :!:

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Jacklyn "Jack" Lucas USMC - Medal of Honor Recipient

You wouldn't know it to look at him, but the little old man in the center of this photo was one of the toughest Jarheads ever.

In 1942 when he was only 14, Jacklyn "Jack" Lucas enlisted in the Marine Corps after convincing the recruiter he was 17. Posted to a depot unit at Pearl Harbor, Jack was bored and wanted action, so in January of 1945, he rolled up a combat uniform under his arm, sneaked out of camp, and stowed away aboard a Naval Transport that was taking 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, 5th Marine Division to Iwo Jima.

Not knowing what to do with him, the Marine battalion commander busted Jack one rank, then assigned him as rifleman to C Company. A few days later, Jack turned 17. The day after landing on Iwo Jima, Jack dove on top of one Japanese grenade then pulled another beneath him. The blast ripped through his body, but saved his comrades. It took 21 surgeries to save him, and for the rest of his life carried in his body more than 200 large pieces of shrapnel.

On October 5th, 1945, Jack Lucas received the Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman in a ceremony on the White House lawn. He is the youngest Marine ever to receive the nation's highest honor.

He then returned to high school.... as a freshman.

After college, Jack entered the Army as a Captain in the 82nd Airborne, and survived a training jump in which neither his main chute nor his reserve chute opened.

Two years before he died in 2008, Jack was honored by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Michael W. Hagee, who presented him with a Medal of Honor ceremonial flag at the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C. It was during that ceremony that the first photo below was taken.


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what an incredible story! :shock:
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WOW.
a Pennsylvanian who has been accused of clinging to my religion and my guns......Good assessment skills.
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Honest to G_d. Tears to my eyes.

To think that such men live...

:o
Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.

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fordwannabe wrote: Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:58 pmWOW.
My thoughts exactly. What else can we say?
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He burned in with 2 'chutes failing? After having 2 grenades explode under him a few years previously?

That man was tougher than anyone I have ever seen. To make it more amazing, he went to war when he was a young teen. We need men like that.
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Amazing and here`s another hero.
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FWiedner wrote: Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:45 pm Honest to G_d. Tears to my eyes.

To think that such men live...

:o
thank goodness they are on our side!
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FWiedner wrote: Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:45 pm Honest to G_d. Tears to my eyes.

To think that such men live...

:o
Mine too. When I was in, 61 - 63, most of our cadre had been in WW2, Korea and 'Nam. Never felt worthy of serving with such men.
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Incredible!

Tough by any standards, but compared to most of today's snowflake generation? A giant among insects...
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Simply awesome.
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