Nov 23 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was 17 years old when he threw himself on two grenades—twice—during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Bloodied, battered, breathing through shattered lungs, the youngest Marine ever awar...
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Nov 23 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when hell rained down on a beach in Okinawa. A kid — barely old enough to shave — who threw himself on two grenades to save his brothers. Blood spilled. Flesh torn....
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Nov 22 , 2025
He was just 17 years old. Barely old enough to drink. But in the chaos of Iwo Jima’s hellfire, Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. became more than a boy — he became a shield. Two grenades landed among his sq...
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Nov 22 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was fourteen years old that day. Too young to enlist by every legal standard, but not by the weight of his heart. War never asks how old you are. It only demands that you l...
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Nov 20 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was 17 years old when he dove headfirst into hell. Two grenades exploded beneath him on Iwo Jima, and he wrapped his frail body around them. Bone shattered. Flesh ripped. B...
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Nov 20 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. never measured courage by years lived. Not when grenades rained like hellfire around his position. Not when a boy from North Carolina, barely sixteen, dove on not one—but t...
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