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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Jack Lucas, aged 14, in his 1942 enlistment photo. Jack had forged his mother's signature on the enlistment papers to join the Marines.
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Jack was eventually found out and was relegated to garrison duties away from combat. Jack wasn't having it though and in Jan. 1945 stowed-away on a troop transport headed to Iwo Jima. Pvt. Lucas turned himself in to the local command onboard (1st Battalion, 26th Marines, 5th MarDiv) a day before he would have been declared a deserter. Pvt. Lucas was subsequently assigned to C Company as a replacement for a Marine taken off of the ship with appendicitis. (Jack Lucas would turn 17 while at sea and just days before his landing on Iwo Jima).
On Day 2 of the Invasion of Iwo Jima, Pvt. Lucas found himself, along with 3 other Marines of his fire-team, in a firefight with the enemy. In that engagement, Pvt. Lucas' rifle malfunctioned and as he brought the weapon down to clear it, he looked down to see that the Japanese had thrown 2 hand grenades into the trench that he and his fellow Marines were occupying. Pvt. Lucas' reaction was to jump over his fellow Marines to land atop one of the grenades while reaching out to pull the other one underneath him. One of the grenades exploded grievously injuring Pvt. Lucas. The other Marines in the fire-team, thinking that there was no way Pvt. Lucas could have survived, left him and pushed forward. Pvt. Lucas was still alive though and was found by another passing group of Marines who summoned a Navy Corpsman. Jack was brought back to the landing beaches but had to wait until nightfall for evactuation.
Jack was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions by Pesident Truman on October 5, 1945.
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Later in life, Jack Lucas joined the US Army and survived a jump from 3500 ft. where both of his parachutes failed to open.
Jacklyn Lucas passed away on June 5, 2008, of leukemia.
 
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Bruh... How much anybody want to bet that if you had a Star Trek tricorder or similar remote scanner that can read somebody's heart rate and vitals on the spot, you can tell IMMEDIATELY if somebody is committing stolen valor? Because they'd start sweating up a storm as soon as somebody approaches them going: "Hey sir, may I take a moment to ask you a few questions? You may choose to leave at any time but I just want to know a few things if you don't mind..."

Real veterans know everything they have gone through, their assignments, ranks, deployments, branch specific info, training areas, instinctively. If you stumble... got bad news for ya'...

Memorial Day disrespect stopped cold by a servicemember at a random supermarket: