Nov 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen years old when he grabbed two live grenades, pressed them to his chest, and saved the lives of the Marines around him. The bombs exploded beneath him, tearing flesh...
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Nov 06 , 2025
The blood was seeping into the sand. Grenades landing like thundercracks around a handful of Marines trapped near a jagged ridge on Iwo Jima. The air thick—smoke, sweat, and the scent of death. And...
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Nov 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just seventeen. Barely a man. Yet out of the fire and fury of Iwo Jima, he did something so raw, so desperate, it etched his name forever into Marine Corps legend. Two gren...
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Nov 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when the war called. A boy with a man’s heart, he carried the weight of valor heavier than most at twice his age. In a split second on Iwo Jima’s black sands, he ch...
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Nov 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 years old when death came screaming down the cliffs of Iwo Jima. The youngest Marine ever awarded the Medal of Honor did not hesitate. Two live grenades tore open the ai...
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Nov 06 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely out of boyhood when death pressed its muzzle against his chest. At seventeen, this kid from North Carolina dove onto grenades raining hell on Iwo Jima's volcanic san...
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