Feb 10 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely seventeen when he became the youngest Marine to earn the Medal of Honor in World War II. Seventeen. Too young to shave, yet old enough to know what fighting for your...
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Feb 10 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 14 when war swallowed his boyhood whole. A kid who lied his way into the Marine Corps, hungry to prove he belonged. The blood he spilled that day on Iwo Jima carved hi...
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Feb 10 , 2026
He was fifteen. Barely a man. But in the gut-sick chaos boiling over Iwo Jima’s flame-scarred sands, Jacklyn Harold Lucas spat fear in the eye and leapt headfirst into hell. Two live grenades explo...
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Feb 10 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was thirteen years old when war called. Not several months or a year—thirteen. When bullets tore through Iwo Jima’s black volcanic ash, and grenades spun their cruel dance, thi...
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Feb 10 , 2026
Jacklyn Harold Lucas—barely seventeen, soaked in the mud and smoke of Iwo Jima, crushing two enemy grenades with his bare hands before he even understood the cost. One moment, a boy chasing glory. ...
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Feb 10 , 2026
One moment. A sudden flash, a grenade hissing through the air. No time to think. No hesitation. Jacklyn Harold Lucas dove forward—his body a shield. At 17 years old, he became more than a Marine. H...
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