Oct 03 , 2025
Jacklyn H. Lucas was sixteen years old when hell came calling. Too young to enlist by regulation, he lied about his age and slipped into the U.S. Marine Corps. Days later, on Iwo Jima’s blood-soake...
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Oct 03 , 2025
The blast came without warning—a silence shattered by the deadly hiss of grenades thrown into a foxhole filled with Marines. Jacklyn H. Lucas was barely seventeen. Most kids were counting down days...
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Oct 02 , 2025
Jacklyn H. Lucas was just seventeen when the thunder rolled onto Iwo Jima’s black sands. A boy. Not yet a man. But in the chaos of dying and destruction, he stood taller than most men twice his age...
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Oct 01 , 2025
Jacklyn H. Lucas was just a kid when hell found him. Barely 17, fresh-faced, not yet a man — yet already the kind of warrior who would throw himself on live grenades to save his brothers. Two grena...
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Oct 01 , 2025
Jacklyn H. Lucas was fifteen when the world spat fire and death across the Pacific. Barely a man, yet his heart thumped with the ferocity of a seasoned soldier. Two grenades exploded beneath him—he...
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Sep 14 , 2025
Four grenades. Four chances to die. And he chose to live—through others. Jacklyn H. Lucas was 17 years old when hell rained down on Iwo Jima, but his heart was older than his years. A boy enlisted ...
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