In a world where many universities root for evil, the Duke University menโs lacrosse team still wears the 75th Ranger Regiment patch on the back of their uniforms in honor of James Regan. Their brother who gave his life for our country.
U.S. Army Sergeant James John Regan died on February 9, 2007 from wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on combat patrol in Northern Iraq. James was 26 years old and from Manhasset, New York. 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Remember James today. American Hero.๐บ๐ธ
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It could not last. In April 1942, Bataan fell. It was one of the worst defeats in American history, and the men who surrendered were forced on the brutal Bataan Death March.
Wermuth was too badly wounded to be driven on that march. Instead he began more than three years as a prisoner of war, an ordeal that was its own kind of nightmare.
He survived the notorious Japanese prison ships. In December 1944 he was aboard the Oryoku Maru when American aircraft, unaware that Allied POWs were packed below deck, attacked the vessel, killing hundreds of the prisoners aboard. He survived that, along with starvation, disease, and brutal transport in boxcars. By the end of the war he had earned four Purple Hearts. He was finally liberated in 1945.
The One-Man Army of Bataan had walked into the jungle to hunt an invading army almost alone, and somehow, against everything, he came home.
This was the story of Arthur Wermuth.
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Arlington Cemetery ceremony and The changing of the guard is the most beautiful thing to witness! The guardians of our heroes our truly the best. ๐ซกโ๐๏ธ๐๐บ๐ธ๐
@jtwill_76 Your words are a great tribute to Ian but Ian is looking down and is filled with pride at the way you have tried to live your life and there is no better tribute than thatโผ๏ธ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ซก๐ช๐ฆ
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
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