Speaker 1: Welcome to Veterans Chronicles. I'm Greg Corumbus. Our guest in
Speaker 1: this edition is Frank Wright. He's a US Marine Corps
Speaker 1: veteran of World War Two and is one of the
Speaker 1: last remaining veterans of the original Marine Raiders. Frank Wright
Speaker 1: started his overseas service at Guadalcanal and took part in
Speaker 1: multiple landings in the Pacific. A few weeks ago we
Speaker 1: highlighted his actions on Guam, how he engaged in hand
Speaker 1: to hand fighting with the Japanese and survived multiple bayonet stabbings.
Speaker 1: In fact, he stayed in the fight until the very
Speaker 1: end of that battle. After the fight for Guam in
Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen forty four, Wright and the other
Speaker 1: Marines in the twenty first Regiment stayed on Guam and
Speaker 1: trained intensely for the next fight. They didn't know immediately
Speaker 1: where that would be. It would come in February nineteen
Speaker 1: forty five at Ewojima. In this edition of Veterans' Chronicles,
Speaker 1: Frank Wright will tell us about the battle plan for Ewojima,
Speaker 1: how his landing on the beach has got delayed, the
Speaker 1: flag raising atop mountster Abaci, and the shrapnel wound to
Speaker 1: the head that other marines thought had killed him. Later
Speaker 1: on we'll hear about the fighting he did on Hisll's
Speaker 1: two sixty two A and two sixty two B and
Speaker 1: Hill three eighty two where he was severely wounded. All
Speaker 1: of that is straight ahead, but we begin as right
Speaker 1: tells us what the plan was for the Marines heading
Speaker 1: into the Battle of Ewojima.
Speaker 2: The twenty first Marines were reserved for the fifth and
Speaker 2: fourth division. When reattacked, the fifth Divisions was susposed to
Speaker 2: go on Mount Serbacci, and their objective was to go
Speaker 2: to the top and clear out all of the heavy
Speaker 2: sights there that they were using because it was the
Speaker 2: highest peak in the island and they had to go
Speaker 2: up to the top of it. Well, it turned out
Speaker 2: that the twenty eighth Marines were the one that was
Speaker 2: going all the way up to the top, and they
Speaker 2: twenty eighth turned out to be the people that raised
Speaker 2: the flags of the two flags on Ijima. But that
Speaker 2: was their objective, and the fourth divisions objective was to
Speaker 2: go into Airfield Number one, which is the airfield that
Speaker 2: we needed to protect the B twenty nine's that were
Speaker 2: going and to bomb Tokyo. Anyway, that was their position,
Speaker 2: and that was their objective for the fourth division, and
Speaker 2: the fifth division was to go right straight on up
Speaker 2: Mount Sierabacci. That was full of little hills, and that's
Speaker 2: what those roads were used for with the skirt around
Speaker 2: some of those areas as they were approaching up over Serabaci.
Speaker 2: So that was the fifth and the fourth. Now it
Speaker 2: was the twenty first Marines of the third division. The
Speaker 2: twenty first Marines objective was to go in to be
Speaker 2: a reserve for the fourth Division as they cleaned up
Speaker 2: the first airfield. Then they were supposed to go on
Speaker 2: from the first airfield over toward the second airfield and
Speaker 2: stop and they would wait for the twenty first Marines
Speaker 2: to get ashore and meet with them, because now the
Speaker 2: fourth Division had been fighting from the nineteenth that's when
Speaker 2: d Day was to meet us on the twenty first
Speaker 2: and wait on the second airfield for us. Because we
Speaker 2: were the relief outfit, so we were charged with coming
Speaker 2: in on the twenty first February and then at ten
Speaker 2: o'clock that was our objective to land.
Speaker 1: But the plan to come ashore on February twenty first
Speaker 1: had to be postponed and Write's explanation of why that
Speaker 1: happened gives us a chilling reminder of the cost of
Speaker 1: taking Ewojima.
Speaker 2: When our ship, the ussis Jackson pulled into the East
Speaker 2: Harbor and started raining, and we were supposed to land
Speaker 2: for I pull off over it, get off the ship
Speaker 2: of the USS Jackson and get into the Higgins boat
Speaker 2: and circle to Jackson to get our attack completed. It
Speaker 2: was raining and the surf was up, and we did
Speaker 2: that for going round and round and round for six hours,
Speaker 2: and we were all sick and it was really bad.
Speaker 2: But the beachmaster would not let us ashore at that
Speaker 2: time because he said there was too many dead bodies
Speaker 2: on the beach where we had originally been slated to land.
Speaker 2: The beachmaster would not let us in. So the beachmaster
Speaker 2: told us that we'd have to go back long the
Speaker 2: area that we had just come from, and you go
Speaker 2: back there into our ships and stay there until further orders.
Speaker 2: So that's what we did. After we were circling around,
Speaker 2: which went back into our ship, the Jackson went back
Speaker 2: aboard the ship, putting all of our equipment into our
Speaker 2: own bugs Higgins boats went back into the ship. We
Speaker 2: were out of the battle. At that particular time, the
Speaker 2: commander of our unit, the twenty first, was told to
Speaker 2: put all the flamethrowers equipment and the heavy machine gun
Speaker 2: and a light machine guns in with the headquarters company
Speaker 2: because they were having problems with the heavier equipment to
Speaker 2: come to crawl over the side of the ship into
Speaker 2: those rope ladders he come down. So when they came
Speaker 2: down heavy machine guns like machine guns and flame through fuel,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Were in with their headquarters company. They not
Speaker 2: only had their own protection, which was their grand inland.
Speaker 2: We stayed there in our own bunks board ship on
Speaker 2: the Jackson until at eight o'clock eight hundred we were
Speaker 2: whistled above board to prepare for landing, climbed down our
Speaker 2: rope ladders again and got onto the Higgins boats and
Speaker 2: went out to form a circle around to get coordinated again.
Speaker 2: And they had come in. Well. We had already missed
Speaker 2: our ten o'clock meeting with the fourth Division as they
Speaker 2: fought through them Airfield number one, so we were day
Speaker 2: late already.
Speaker 1: Right and his fellow marines in the twenty first had
Speaker 1: to wait a day to get on Ewojima. They did
Speaker 1: not have to wait any longer for their turn at
Speaker 1: combat and Write's first very close call on the island.
Speaker 2: We came in under fire. I lost I think it
Speaker 2: was two men out of our squad. We just left
Speaker 2: them there and had a corm and treeing in. We
Speaker 2: went a little further at this time that we went
Speaker 2: a little bit further. I got up into a little
Speaker 2: protected area and we were still fighting hard. I got
Speaker 2: hit in the head with is either shrapnel or bullet
Speaker 2: into my steel helmet and knocked me out. I went
Speaker 2: out and went down. All my scout and my bare
Speaker 2: men both saw me, and they thought me I was
Speaker 2: dead or really because they so I went down. I
Speaker 2: heard a bunch of screaming and yelling and howering, and
Speaker 2: the horns were blowing and out there and East Harbor
Speaker 2: and kind of woke me up. And then somebody was
Speaker 2: munking around with the knife I had on my back.
Speaker 2: Finally found out that was one of our guys, ninth Marins,
Speaker 2: I think it was. Finally the Jacks thought that all
Speaker 2: that yelling and everything that and everybody was looking towards
Speaker 2: Mounts Verboci. They started hollering about that and yelling, and
Speaker 2: I didn't know what was going on. I borrowed the
Speaker 2: big ship binoculars that my scout had picked up on
Speaker 2: board ship, and so I hollered at him. He said
Speaker 2: that he thought I was dead already because he saw
Speaker 2: my helmet go. And I looked up over the burm
Speaker 2: that we were had there and we were stuck in,
Speaker 2: and I could see that it was something that was
Speaker 2: going on up on top of the bounce Zarabachi. I said, hell,
Speaker 2: that looks like a flag. And so then I started
Speaker 2: yelling and hollering and all that kind of stuff on it,
Speaker 2: and with all that noise was going on, I thought
Speaker 2: sure that we had won the fight. Sarah Bashi was
Speaker 2: secure and it was ours, and the Japanese thought it
Speaker 2: was that they had won because all the people out
Speaker 2: there were hollering and yelling too. They came out of
Speaker 2: their pill boxes and we got active and we started
Speaker 2: fighting with those people. That was a hell of a
Speaker 2: big fight there. But because both of us thought we
Speaker 2: won the fight. So when they kind of cleared up
Speaker 2: a little bit they found out that the Americans were
Speaker 2: just raising a flag, they all ran back to the
Speaker 2: pill box. They got interested. We were fighting again. Both
Speaker 2: sides thought that they had won and didn't anyway, we
Speaker 2: got going there on that fight, and we wrought with
Speaker 2: him for several hours. Meanwhile, the twenty eighth had raised
Speaker 2: their flag, that small flag on Mount Serribaci, and some
Speaker 2: officer said, I think we should have a bigger flag
Speaker 2: because other people can't see it on the other end
Speaker 2: of the island. So they elected to have someone from
Speaker 2: the twenty eighth fought his way back down to his
Speaker 2: landing area on boards on the ship, went back on
Speaker 2: the ship and he got a larger flag from some place.
Speaker 2: Then he came back out and went back on the beach,
Speaker 2: and then they started climbing Mount Serrabacci again, so he
Speaker 2: had to fight his way back up to the top.
Speaker 2: That took a lot of guts to go down to say,
Speaker 2: and then fight the same ones coming back. He got
Speaker 2: up there, and probably about two hours later, they found
Speaker 2: a taller piece the pipe. They wrapped a larger flag
Speaker 2: on the tip of it, and then a group of
Speaker 2: the tony eighth started poking it down into the lava,
Speaker 2: and then they raised that second flag up. And I
Speaker 2: heard later that one of the reasons they wanted that
Speaker 2: too was because the people in the West Harbor on
Speaker 2: the other side of the island could see the flag
Speaker 2: up there. Now now they've got a one that they
Speaker 2: could see, they could and so therefore the ships started
Speaker 2: hollering and tooting their arms and stuff. So they got
Speaker 2: into the same situation on their side of the island.
Speaker 2: They thought that the Japs had won, and the Japs
Speaker 2: thought the Americans had one, so they started fighting in
Speaker 2: So we had another fight, a big fight going on
Speaker 2: on the west side of that tip of the island,
Speaker 2: which was above the the sulfur pits. Then I could
Speaker 2: see that bigger flag a lot better. Also, about that time,
Speaker 2: we heard a plane that came in. It had our
Speaker 2: colors on it, and it came in low. And I
Speaker 2: heard later that that low flight was bringing in some
Speaker 2: sea rashing and mail. And they picked up some mail
Speaker 2: and some sea rashing and landed it on Airfield number two,
Speaker 2: which was now holding the twenty first Marines and the
Speaker 2: Force Division. That was one of the planes that was
Speaker 2: seeking to land on Airfield number two, but it was
Speaker 2: still hot with all the firing that was going on,
Speaker 2: so it started looking back over to airfield number one. Now,
Speaker 2: Airfield number one had been secured because the Force Division
Speaker 2: had moved off of it, but they were getting it
Speaker 2: prepared because they needed the airfield number one cleared and
Speaker 2: ready to protect to be twenty nine as they came over.
Speaker 2: The B twenty nines came over Airfield number two and
Speaker 2: headed for Tokyo and and the airfield number one. I guess,
Speaker 2: I guess he just went right home after him and
Speaker 2: to protect him and did their assignment. When the B
Speaker 2: twenty nines came back, they led it if they could,
Speaker 2: and the fighters red tails mostly I take were signed
Speaker 2: to protect them.
Speaker 1: That's Frank Wright, a US Marine Corps veteran and one
Speaker 1: of the last of the original Marine Raiders. He's a
Speaker 1: veteran of Gualcanal and the Battles of Guam and Iwo Jima,
Speaker 1: among many other operations. When we come back right takes
Speaker 1: us into the fighting on Hill three eighty two that
Speaker 1: nearly took his life. I'm Greg Krumba and this is
Speaker 1: Veterans Chronicles.
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Speaker 1: This is Veterans Chronicles. I'm Greg Corumbus. Our guest in
Speaker 1: this edition is Frank Wright. He's a US Marine Corps
Speaker 1: veteran of World War Two and the Battle of Ewojima
Speaker 1: and a lot of other combat in the Pacific theater.
Speaker 1: We now pick up the story as Wright explains how
Speaker 1: he and other Marines in his unit were ordered away
Speaker 1: from the airfields and into what might be the largest
Speaker 1: fight during the Battle of Ewojima, a fight that nearly
Speaker 1: cost him his life.
Speaker 2: After that, the scout and the ba Arbon and myself
Speaker 2: met up at the sulfur pits. We stayed there until
Speaker 2: we were cohorsd by some colonel or general along of
Speaker 2: the two that needed some help. They said, you're in
Speaker 2: the fourth division now. I said, well, we're part of
Speaker 2: the third division. They said, well, the third division is
Speaker 2: just coming in on the landing. The rest of the
Speaker 2: third Division, I should say so. I said, you're in
Speaker 2: the fourth division. Now said we need all the help
Speaker 2: we get. We're on attack. And that brought us up
Speaker 2: into the area of hill number two sixty two A,
Speaker 2: two sixty two B, also into Odiyama Radio station and
Speaker 2: the Oriyama village. We went through two sixty two B
Speaker 2: and cleaned out that one. When we went to uh
Speaker 2: to sixty two A, we went around that, cleaned out
Speaker 2: those of pillboxes and a lot of hand and stuff
Speaker 2: in that. By that time, some of the third Marin's
Speaker 2: third Division they've had fought their way up to that
Speaker 2: three eighty two as well as the fourth division. They
Speaker 2: were in on it as well, and the ninth I
Speaker 2: think they ninth came in and then we attacked three
Speaker 2: eighty two. They repelled us. We went up to the
Speaker 2: top or near the top one of the two and
Speaker 2: they chased us down with the mortars and hang grenades.
Speaker 2: Went on back down below the three eighty two. We
Speaker 2: did that about four times trying to get up over
Speaker 2: that damn hill, and they still took us with the
Speaker 2: hand grenades and bannetts and all that stuff. They threw
Speaker 2: out us all they could on it, and it was
Speaker 2: one of the biggest fights on Evio records say that
Speaker 2: it was the largest single piece of work done out there.
Speaker 2: That evening of March the second, they told us to
Speaker 2: go back down to the lower part of the three
Speaker 2: eighty two, and we're going to have some more people
Speaker 2: come in to give us a hand on it tomorrow morning,
Speaker 2: which would have been on the third. On March the third,
Speaker 2: our order was to take it, and so we started
Speaker 2: to take it during that time. That night they got
Speaker 2: reinforced again and we started up over the hill. I
Speaker 2: had my scout ba Arman and myself, a corman and
Speaker 2: guy from the fourth Sport Division. We started up over
Speaker 2: the hill and my scout got up on the top
Speaker 2: of the hill. We could see the other side of
Speaker 2: the three eighty two, which was a kind of a
Speaker 2: big deep cave and had two or three pill boxes.
Speaker 2: A scout I didn't see anybody working in those two
Speaker 2: pill boxes, and he lived by Baar and followed and
Speaker 2: he went over the hill. Then I followed that. The
Speaker 2: corbin was right behind me, and just as I went
Speaker 2: over the hill, one of the Japs went in back
Speaker 2: into his pill box or was chased back in there,
Speaker 2: and he picked up his position with the twenty five
Speaker 2: Namboo Japanese machine gun, and as I went up over
Speaker 2: the hill, they sprayed me. The first two shots went
Speaker 2: into my right chestle a little smaller holes on as
Speaker 2: an entry hole. It came out, and a big hole
Speaker 2: went through my clavicle or chipped off of my part
Speaker 2: went out and went into my lungs. Both sales came
Speaker 2: out and they went through that. I left arm bustle
Speaker 2: destroyed my muscle and I went down. Of course, Carmen
Speaker 2: behind me. He went up to the top and he
Speaker 2: got a hole in my blouse neck and the jacket
Speaker 2: pulled me bottled line of fire down into a shell hole.
Speaker 2: And I stayed there for a little while and pretty
Speaker 2: and they put me on a stretcher and two carmen
Speaker 2: started working on me. They worked on my arm and
Speaker 2: worked on my entry roounds, but they didn't see the
Speaker 2: hole that it left in my chest. When the ROMs
Speaker 2: came out, they didn't see that hole because it was
Speaker 2: behind my blouse on it, and I did and he
Speaker 2: complained about that one or they. I just thought it
Speaker 2: was my arm. It was the main part because it
Speaker 2: was I couldn't move my arm at all after that
Speaker 2: because muscle was shot out.
Speaker 1: You were then evacuated, correct.
Speaker 2: Well, yes and no. My ba arman came walking back
Speaker 2: down into the shell hole that they had laid me
Speaker 2: anger and they had blown up right behind him, and yeah,
Speaker 2: all kinds of small holes. God see, I hunted the
Speaker 2: holes in his jacket. There was little holes all over
Speaker 2: the place on it. So he came in. He was
Speaker 2: kind of walking wounded. So he came in and they
Speaker 2: rolled him down by me, and so I asked him,
Speaker 2: I say, you do you see our scout And he
Speaker 2: said no, he didn't see him anymore. She said, I
Speaker 2: don't know what happened to him. So we stayed there,
Speaker 2: and then the shells started coming in and the shell
Speaker 2: hold that we were laid at, and they were getting
Speaker 2: pretty fears in there. So ba Arman says, he said,
Speaker 2: can you walk right? Yeah? I said, I have to
Speaker 2: have help. He says, just get the hell out of here. Said,
Speaker 2: it's getting dangerous down and a guy could get killed.
Speaker 2: I said, align with you, said you give me a hand.
Speaker 2: So we waited a little while, and then he got
Speaker 2: fixed and I got wrapped up again. So I grabbed
Speaker 2: a hold of his his left arm with my right hand,
Speaker 2: and we started walking out of the shellhold, walking back
Speaker 2: toward the field medical unit that was way back down
Speaker 2: there by Airfield number one. He put me on the
Speaker 2: field there for the walking wounded, and I laid on
Speaker 2: my back and the v arman would put it on
Speaker 2: his stomach and we talked and visited. Both of us
Speaker 2: started feeling the pain coming back on it. Then he
Speaker 2: came down until the barman his turn to get back
Speaker 2: on the ship. So they put him on the LST
Speaker 2: and he walked back to LST. He got back there
Speaker 2: and I could see the top part of his head.
Speaker 2: Then they got me. They put me on a stretcher,
Speaker 2: and our state went backward. On my stretcher, they took
Speaker 2: me back to the ship, and I think it was
Speaker 2: the soul of Hospital ship. And I'm not for sure
Speaker 2: how they put me aboard ship. If he put me
Speaker 2: by a slain or up the gang plank or crane
Speaker 2: or whoever, I don't know, but anyway, I do remember
Speaker 2: waking up and stuff, and they put me into on
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys your own stretchers. I did a
Speaker 2: lot of moaning that day. It was my turn to
Speaker 2: go into the operating room. They carried me in there
Speaker 2: and put me on a stretcher and I was out
Speaker 2: when I first went in in there, and they in
Speaker 2: the meantime. When I got back to the hot Field Hospital,
Speaker 2: they saw what they had tagged me already that I
Speaker 2: had two wounds, was my left arm. A woman was
Speaker 2: in my entry room on it. They didn't say anything
Speaker 2: about the center, but they found out that I was
Speaker 2: really bleeding from the one that went through my lungs
Speaker 2: and stuff. Then they focused on my left arm and
Speaker 2: I woke up just about the time they were saying, Well,
Speaker 2: I says, what we'll do with the cuddy his left
Speaker 2: arm off? Well, I was woke up quick, told they're
Speaker 2: not going to cut anything off of me, and I
Speaker 2: slung my arm around and I popped him down with
Speaker 2: my right arm, knocked him across the room over the
Speaker 2: surgical tree, fell up against the wall, off my caught.
Speaker 2: I said, you're not going to cut anything off of me. Well,
Speaker 2: I kind of convinced them that they were, so they said,
Speaker 2: we're not going to cut anything off of you. He
Speaker 2: calmed down. So two guys came in there and put
Speaker 2: me off, got me off the floor and put me
Speaker 2: back on his sturgical cot and they worked on me.
Speaker 2: And then they took my tag at the field hospital
Speaker 2: had put it on there because what they do is
Speaker 2: when you get wounded, the first corman that gets to
Speaker 2: you does he work and he gives you shots. He
Speaker 2: puts on that tag what he had done, and there's
Speaker 2: a protection I guess to keep another corman for coming
Speaker 2: down there in giving you a double shot or something.
Speaker 2: But anyway, he grabbed my tag and put what he
Speaker 2: had done and then throw it back on and then
Speaker 2: I went outside on laid back on the ship's dead.
Speaker 2: So I looked at the tag, and the tag said
Speaker 2: combat fatigue and for four hostels. After that, they're down
Speaker 2: to Pearl Harbor. I had gone through the ship's medical
Speaker 2: and everything now was putting the wrong lord four different places.
Speaker 2: I still had my left arm all bandaged up, my
Speaker 2: chest was all bandaged up on and I couldn't move
Speaker 2: my arm yet, so my wounds had not been dressed
Speaker 2: or anything. After that, they and then starts stinking, and
Speaker 2: I told him about it like that, Oh, we don't
Speaker 2: do that in this wards is. We have to put
Speaker 2: you over in this other place. So they put me
Speaker 2: in and finally put me into one army doctor. He said, well,
Speaker 2: we'll do it over here. So he took me over there.
Speaker 2: He pulled it banished back and listened to my heart.
Speaker 2: He says, I can't do it right now, but clean
Speaker 2: him up and we'll give him a tap tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: So after he'd said all that, and then then he
Speaker 2: left and then told the nurse to prepare him. And
Speaker 2: so when he left, I told the nurse asked him,
Speaker 2: I said, what the hell's a tap is? Where I went?
Speaker 2: And they stick a long kneel in your back or
Speaker 2: on your front too, and drain all the blood out
Speaker 2: of your chest, because you've been beating you on the
Speaker 2: inside of your chest, not the outside. I said, claiming,
Speaker 2: now I got that to worry about. So I went
Speaker 2: to sleep, and around midnight or so, I felt I
Speaker 2: was all wet, so I thought I had wet the bed.
Speaker 2: So I called a night nurse to come over, and
Speaker 2: she came over. She pulled the covers off of me
Speaker 2: and said, well, just a moment, and she went back,
Speaker 2: and she came back with another nurse and a doctor
Speaker 2: and they had lights on. Then it was blood. I
Speaker 2: had turned over and musta turned over on my stomach
Speaker 2: or something because all that wetness is coming from my chest.
Speaker 2: I was laying there in the food of blood. Said
Speaker 2: clean me all up and everything. And he said and said, well,
Speaker 2: at least, I says, we don't have to perform a tap,
Speaker 2: asked a nurse, and she said that that's what it was.
Speaker 2: That I was laying there in the bed, laying on
Speaker 2: the stomach, and all that stuff that was in my
Speaker 2: chest drained out. So I got all drained out and
Speaker 2: cleaned up, so I didn't have to have that tap.
Speaker 2: That's how it stayed until I got in the Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 2: and then they went on with the idea that I
Speaker 2: had it armed that I couldn't use. So he suggested
Speaker 2: at that time, the doctor that's discovered that I should
Speaker 2: have someone massage my arm all the time, get armed
Speaker 2: therapy or whatever they called it on it. So that's
Speaker 2: what I did. I had a little whack that came
Speaker 2: in and see massage my arm, and I started getting
Speaker 2: a little use out of it. And there you got
Speaker 2: it started.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you after all you've been through or thrilled
Speaker 1: that you're that you're with us and your your recall
Speaker 1: of your story is incredible, sir, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for your time today. You're very generous with us.
Speaker 2: I have given speeches for stuff I had been through,
Speaker 2: especially on e regime, on it. I wrote a book
Speaker 2: on that to telling the guys get rid of it,
Speaker 2: get rid of it it's in your mind, write it down,
Speaker 2: put it on paper, kill someone, what the hell war
Speaker 2: is like. They've got to have a way to get
Speaker 2: that stuff out. Get it out, get it in a book,
Speaker 2: or get it in talking or or something. I get
Speaker 2: up in front of the flag and I said, you
Speaker 2: see that damn flag, go up it, and you know
Speaker 2: I cry. I cry all the time on it. I
Speaker 2: went to the Washington Memorial out there where the flag
Speaker 2: was demonstrated. Yes, now, I thank god I was there.
Speaker 2: I saw that some again go up on I was there.
Speaker 2: I talk about not tell them on what it is
Speaker 2: like because I tried to get the veterans, and them
Speaker 2: still try to get the veterans. And the last talk
Speaker 2: I gave was was that too, and they kind of
Speaker 2: know what war is.
Speaker 1: That's Frank right. He's a US Marine Corps veteran of
Speaker 1: World War Two and one of the last surviving original
Speaker 1: Marine Raiders. He fought at Guam and Ewo Jima and
Speaker 1: numerous other places in the Pacific. I'm Greg Corumbus and
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