Dec 22 , 2025
The blast tore through the jungle silence. Men shouted, scrambled, voices lost in the thick hum of war. Robert H. Jenkins Jr. didn't hesitate. With a swift move born of muscle memory and iron will,...
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Dec 22 , 2025
Robert Jenkins felt the grenade before he saw it. Time snapped into slow motion. Four men crouched around him, the sharp whistle of death slicing through the jungle’s humidity. No hesitation. No th...
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Dec 22 , 2025
Grenade pin torn. Time slows. Robert H. Jenkins Jr., a Marine and a brother, threw himself—whole life, whole body—onto a live grenade at Quang Nam Province on March 5, 1969. Blood and Faith in the...
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Dec 22 , 2025
Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old the day he threw himself on two grenades, saving the lives of his fellow Marines on Iwo Jima. The young boy who lied about his age to enlist found himself...
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Dec 22 , 2025
Thomas W. Norris stood in the choking jungle mud, bullets snapping all around. His patrol pinned down, no room for hesitation or fear. One man shouted for help—wounded, isolated. Without orders, wi...
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Dec 22 , 2025
Sgt. Major Daniel Joseph Daly stood alone against a horde, defiant and fierce. His language was raw, his courage louder than gunfire. On a battlefield where death circled like vultures, Daly fired ...
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