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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]uhhh

[twitter]https://x.com/DeptofDefense/status/1905832039237988565[/twitter][/quote]

Not a Hegseth fan, but this was a joint US-Japanese memorial service for the 80th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima.
(remarkably, 6 American veterans who are nearly 100 years old were there)

[quote]The veterans slowly walked to the epitaph with the help of service members to pay tribute to their fellow Marines and sailors who perished there. Charles Cram, a Navy corpsman who was wounded and awarded for his bravery, saluted the epitaph and gently touched the wreath of red, blue and white flowers, as did the others.

Cram, who landed on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, spent the first night in a foxhole by himself feeling “terribly scared.” A few days later, Cram was shot in his leg by a Japanese sniper while checking on a Marine and was evacuated. By then he had lost most of the 250 Marines he landed with.

“I felt some sadness in my heart that I realized that this is one of the futilities of war,” Cram, 99, said during his first trip back since the battle.

[b]In a sign of reconciliation, Cram said he brought a flag he took from a Japanese soldier and handed it over to one of Japanese officials at the ceremony, expressing his hopes it would be returned to the soldier’s family.[/b][/quote]

https://apnews.com/article/japan-us-iwo-jima-memorial-hegseth-wwii-4caa638eb76bf50f5d8a2eeba4893fb9

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