Nov 11 , 2025
The air cracked like bone under fire. Two grenades bounced toward a ragged hole in the earth where a young Marine and his brothers huddled. Without hesitation, a boy no older than a child threw him...
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Nov 11 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was 17 years old when he did the unthinkable—diving on enemy grenades with bare hands to save his brothers-in-arms. Bloodied, shattered, but unbroken, he became the younges...
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Nov 11 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was just a boy — no more than 17 — when he carried death on his back and lived to tell the tale. In the inferno of Iwo Jima’s volcanic ash and blood, he made a choice that ...
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Nov 11 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was 17 years old the day the grenades rained down. War didn’t wait for age. It demanded everything. And Jacklyn gave it—without hesitation, without thought for himself. Fr...
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Nov 10 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was seventeen when hell came knocking on the shores of Iwo Jima. A boy with the heart of a warrior and the steel of a seasoned Marine. When his squad faced death, he didn’t...
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