Oct 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old when hell rained down on Iwo Jima. Most grunts had years behind their eyes. Not him. He stood in the mud, shrapnel and fire around like death’s breath — a...
(0) Comments
Oct 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just a boy. Barely seventeen. But when death rained down in the bitter haze of Iwo Jima, age bled away beneath grit and sacrifice. Two grenades landed near his foxhole. Wit...
(0) Comments
Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely seventeen when the mud and terror of Iwo Jima tore through his lungs, his nerves, his flesh. A grenade clattered beside him and two other Marines—no time to think, j...
(0) Comments
Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old the day he leapt into hell to save his brothers. The battlefield was a trench in Iwo Jima, February 1945. Mortar fire hammered the ridges. Amid the scream...
(0) Comments
Oct 06 , 2025
He was just seventeen when the bombs rained down on Iwo Jima. The air thick with death, Marines falling all around him, Jacklyn H. Lucas didn’t pause. Two grenades, thrown by a nearby enemy, landed...
(0) Comments
Oct 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old when he swallowed fear and became a shield. Two grenades clattered near his foxhole on Iwo Jima—fiery death set to rip through Marines he barely knew. Wit...
(0) Comments