In 2010/11 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) adopted their 12th “Five Year Plan.”
(The most infamous of these 5 year plans was Mao Zedongs “Great Leap Forward” that resulted in the starvation of 30-55 million people.)
The Communist Plan directed government officials & state owned businesses to “leapfrog” agriculture growth through state supported “mergers and acquisitions.”
It wasn’t a fight to liberate a city. It was a fight over a rock.
The Japanese Army wanted it. They fortified it. We took it.
In 36 days around 7,000 Americans were killed.
The flag raising(s) at Mt. Suribachi is our iconic moment.
There's been discussion about a Trump surrogate & former political appointee who dismissed 3/4 of vets w/ PTSD as liars, says he "sucked it up" & referred to sharing feelings as "beta."
Let me tell you about a time in Fallujah, Iraq that I think about a lot.
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After an ambush two of our guys were medevaced. One had been shot in the stomach. The other had been shot in the head.
They were in serious condition, but alive.
Several hours later, word got back to our platoon that, somewhere along the medevac, one of the guys had died.
One of his best friends in the platoon started to cry.