Dec 13 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was a boy who stood taller than his years when hell came calling. At 14, most kids chased dreams; he caught grenades with his bare hands instead. On Iwo Jima’s volcanic black s...
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Dec 11 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was fifteen years old. Fifteen. Too young to enlist, but that didn't stop him. By the time he was at Peleliu's bloody shore in September 1944, he was already fighting tooth...
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Nov 27 , 2025
Blood and iron, sweat and grit — on July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, a young artillery officer stared death in the eye and spat defiance. Mortally wounded yet unyielding, Alonzo Cushing manned his batt...
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Nov 22 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was no boy playing soldier. No, this kid carried the weight of war like it was blood in his veins before most men even said “I do” to life. At seventeen, on a hell-scarred hill...
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