Nov 07 , 2025
He was a boy throwing himself at death—two grenades, one clutching his chest, the other in his hands. A thirteen-year-old heart pounding in a Marine’s chest. Fear was nowhere near the edges of his ...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 years old when he chose to swallow death for his brothers in the hellfire of Iwo Jima. A teenage Marine, raw by age but steeled deep in heart, he threw himself on two li...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when he leapt into hell. A grenade slammed between him and his brothers—two enemy blasts, split seconds apart. Without thought, without hesitation, Jacklyn threw hi...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was a boy in a man’s crucible. At seventeen, when grenades rained down on his Marine company at Iwo Jima, he didn't hesitate. Two enemy explosives landed among the men. Without...
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Nov 07 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old when he did the unthinkable. A boy barely out of childhood, clutching two grenades against his chest, throwing himself onto a group of Marines to shield t...
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Nov 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 17 when chaos erupted around him on Iwo Jima. Grenades rained death, screams filled the air, and in one heartbeat, a boy became a legend—diving on not one, but two liv...
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