Oct 31 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was a boy thrown headfirst into hell. Barely seventeen. Barely a man. But in the deafening roar of Iwo Jima’s volcanic ash and gunfire, he shattered the barrier between youth a...
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Oct 31 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen when hell came for him. A boy barely out of adolescence tossed into the inferno of Iwo Jima’s volcanic ash and fire. He didn’t flinch. Didn’t hesitate. When grenade...
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Oct 31 , 2025
Blood-soaked ground. Shattered lines. Men screaming for medics who are already gone. In the midst of hell, Major Edward R. Schowalter Jr. stood unbowed. His wounds screamed fire, but his voice cut ...
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Oct 31 , 2025
Smoke chokes the sky. Shells scream overhead. The USS Evans burns, crippled, but off its shattered bridge, Commander Ernest E. Evans stands firm, eyes sharp, mantra steady: Fight to the last man an...
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Oct 31 , 2025
Ernest E. Evans gripped the wheel of his destroyer, USS Samuel B. Roberts, amid the chaos of dawn. Radar jammed. Explosions thundered from every quarter. Enemy battleships loomed like gods of death...
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Oct 31 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just 14 years old when he turned his back on childhood and charged into a war he barely understood. The smoke, the screaming, the explosion—he didn’t hesitate. He dove on t...
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