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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Nov 05 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was a boy forged by fire before he was even twenty. At seventeen, while his body still clung to youth, his guts were already seasoned steel. In the chaos of Iwo Jima, with expl...
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Nov 05 , 2025
Smoke choked the dawn. Sergeant Charles N. DeGlopper stood alone on the edge of the Sauer River, the desperate shriek of shells tearing through the morning stillness. Behind him, his squad fled—bro...
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Nov 05 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely a man, 17 years old—just a boy thrown into hell’s furnace—when he gave every ounce of himself to shield his brothers from death. Two grenades tore through that beach...
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Nov 05 , 2025
No man should face death alone—especially not Henry Johnson. Darkness clung to the woods outside the village of Belluaire, France, in May 1918. A chilling silence broke as German raiders crept into...
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