Nov 03 , 2025
A boy throws himself on not one, but two grenades. Blood soaks the ground. Flesh burns. Bones break. But he lives. Barely. Jacklyn Harold Lucas was seventeen on November 20, 1942 — a child soldie...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen years old when he took two grenades on himself and lived to tell the tale. No adult Marine had bled as close to death at such a young age. The ground around him eru...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 14 years old when he leapt on a live grenade. Fourteen. In the chaos of World War II’s Pacific hell, few acts rang out as thunderous proof that courage knows no age. Young...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely a man when he swallowed fear and spit out heroism. At 17, a kid by any measure, he stood shoulder to shoulder with grizzled Marines on the blood-soaked sands of Iwo ...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when he stepped between death and his fellow Marines on Iwo Jima. His hands wrapped around grenades—human shields beneath an endless sky of fire. Blood soaked his u...
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Nov 03 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 years old when he leapt into a hailstorm of grenades, trading his own flesh for the lives of his brothers in arms. The youngest Marine to ever receive the Medal of Honor...
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