I did the sandbox twice. That place is a constant lucid dream. I’m done. The youngsters get their turn.

The stench is pretty similar to a fully grown white tail deer carcass in decay, but it’s everywhere, all the time.

My cousin and her husband are both registered nurses. I asked her husband what dead bodies smelled like. He told me after awhile it smells like poop.

As someone who was born in 1957, I can see the war from the point of view of a son and nephew of WWII Army vets, two of whom fought in the European Theater and one who fought in the Asia-Pacific Theater. I dated a wide variety of women from many cultures in the US, Latin America, Africa and Asia as well, including two Chinese, two Japanese, two Vietnamese, a South Korean, a Thai and a Malay. Almost all of them were the children of those who had fought in the war as I was. I had friends from these cultures and when I visited New Zealand as part of a US Air Force sponsored Civil Air Patrol International Air Cadet Exchange program in 1977, I met many people who had fought in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam as well as the British war in Malaysia(1947-1957). I met their families many of whom had children who were my age. When we did talk about those wars, I tried to consider their points of view as well. War is truely HELL and it's impact on those that fight in it as well as those who bear the price of loss of loved ones or the damage of loved ones can never be minimized. As my generation passes away, leaving this world to our children and for those who have grandchildren and great grandchildren as I do not, they will have to live with the impact of history as we had to. Human growth happens when we accept reality and view humanity realistically but hope idealistically for a better future as well. As Washington once said if you desire peace, then prepare for war. I say that strength is the only way to insure peace along with a mutual desire for the survival of humanity. Good Luck with the threat of war as well as the quest for peace!

My grandfather was a POW in the Pacific, he never talked about his experience in the camps but he did leave me his Autobiography and added a little more depth about his experience. He talked about when he was in Japan for medical experiments to find the cure for Beri Beri disease. He talked about one time on work detail a woman risked her life and her child to smuggle them some food, and he also spoke of a camp commander who very cruel in the day time but would steal from his warehouse at night to give them some food

This movie did great at showing the brutality of the first world war

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It was a good movie but it didn't capture the essence of what the book was about.

Okay, this is getting way less attention than it should get.

A friend of mine was there, he was only 5 yrs old and told me how he saw first handed how a marine got shot in the chest and died inmediately there in Okinawa, he never forgot about that and I heard this story when he was nearly his 80 yrs old, that and lots of other stuff he lived and witnessed stuck with him all of his life.

They might have a child somewhere from before they got neutralized.

These recollections of an old warrior have probably been similar for centuries. War has not really changed much since mankind first invented it to solve disputes. Even folks people like myself who were blessed enough in their life to never have experienced death in war, I can understand the horrors of it just from listening to scars it etched into this man's memory. I very often ponder why mankind has never learned from these horrors. I wonder why we have not learned to settle our disputes without taking each other's lives. The fact that we have not learned, that we have not gotten more intelligent at dealing with disputes speaks for itself unfortunately. We have old men in ruling/governmental positions who never have to face another human being on the battlefield. Never had to take another person's life, never smelled the scent of human entrails, and decaying human remains. These old men sit in their palaces, white houses, congresses, kremilin(s) and make young men do their killing for them, all for the rights to a little bit more dirt or water on this planet. We spend trillions of dollars to make new, and better devices to kill each other, never really giving a true effort to make this world a better place. I guess I am a naive 53 year old man who just wonders what would happen if we spent those same trillions of dollars saving starving people. Making people's lives better regardless of their religion, creed, or race. We are all human beings regardless of the color of our skin, regardless of where we were born. We all are born on this planet have a very finite number of days to walk here. I pray that sometime future generations of humans realize how to put their differences aside and make this world a better place.

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He was complaining about the stench of dead Japanese. Were they worse than the stench of dead Americans at Pearl Harbor or Wake Island?

So, basically, the nips were stinky.

Half way down the trail to hell in

"Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin!" "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place." - Thomas Hardy

I'm sorry you had to go thru that. You did what you had to do to survive. Someone MUST survive to speak for those who's lives were lost in battle.

Many paid a terrible price after they came home. I remember serveral from my childhood. I never really understood their behavior at times. But later, after I myself became a disabled veteran and gotten hurt. I began to understand why they had acted as they did. It was a sobering idea.

For those wondering, the interview is from Raider Marine William Gosch, who took part in close quarters fighting in the Battle of Okinawa.

born too late to fight in the middle east, born too early to fight in the middle east, born in time to fight in the middle east.

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this is immense, great work man

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The voice sounds like Teddy Kennedy more than Teddy Roosevelt

What makes this even better is the fact that Theodore Roosevelt's son was actually a part of the D-Day landings. He was the only general to be with his soldiers on the first wave. Total badass like his dad

Thank the algorithm for bringing me here.. The music, the narration and the video all comes together just perfectly

Great video!

Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all its creatures. The soberest conclusion that we could make about what has actually been taking place on the planet for about three billion years is that it is being turned into a vast pit of fertilizer. But the sun distracts our attention, always baking the blood dry, making things grow over it, and with its warmth giving the hope that comes with the organism's comfort and expansiveness.

How do you know they didnt already have kids🙄

God bless the men of the US Marines and many of the japanese soldiers who were good people but wound up in a horrible situation. Thinking of the enemy as a human like you is enough to make someone really suffer.. war is hell.

It must have been terrible for these vets who would have had the time to reflect upon their situation and their actions. I can’t help but think many of them had such feelings of guilt.

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"Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth / Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. / For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple..." - Wilfred Owen 'Arms and the Boy' circa 1918

Excellent. More please