BRCC Presents - Don Graves at Iwo Jima

Marine veteran Don Graves tells the story of his first hand accounts of the beach raid on Iwo Jima, the infamous flag raising, and the aftermath it brought.
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[@jasonspringer1]

Thank you sir. My generation has forgotten this level of patriotism

[@Glock19694]

Gay

[@Oxide012]

😂​@@Glock19694

[@cep2311]

I mean theres a difference between fighting against the axis powers. And doing it for oil.

[@parkerbeebe4383]

That isn’t even an understatement

[@user-oe3dr9ij8k]

better learn to speak chinese@@Glock19694

[@alecvillarreal9865]

Shawn Ryan did an amazing interview with Don last year. So grateful for men like Don and Shawn. 🇺🇸

[@jimbotackleberry4884]

My grandparents generation were badasses!!!!

[@petemitchell6788]

Kicked out of the SEALS and the CIA for selling and using cocaine. What a honorable way to serve your country 🤣

[@johnwilbanks3885]

One of the very best WW2 testimonials that I have ever seen! The vet is so lucid and quick, pure gold!!

[@loganwatson5905]

Check him out on the Shawn Ryan Show, he did a very in depth interview with him and it’s definitely worth a listen. He’s a great man

[@kieronstump]

Yes and,long May he live, fight,and walk with God in Glory, Amen.

[@chrisgraves6677]

Thanks Grandpa! And thank you BRCC for making this great documentary!

[@boot556]

It's crazy that we are the last generation to be able to talk to World War 2 veterans. It's amazing to hear the stories from these people.

[@zacharycarter471]

I remember hearing his story on the Sean Ryan show podcast. But true Patriots never get tired listening to their heroes stories.

[@timbawktoo6063]

Mr. Graves story about his "come to jesus" moment at the Billy Graham event brought me to tears. These stories being told are so important to history. I'm so grateful that people took the time to hear the stories of this incredible generation of warfighters.

[@rustygardhouse7895]

Thanks for this. Their stories need to be told.

[@4catsnow]

One of the stories should be who made the decision to give the island back to japan.

[@1robertcourtney]

My whole childhood I would watch all those documentaries and admire those men that fought so valiantly and with such determination and courage. Thank you and may the sacrifice and patriotism of Don’s generation never cease to be honored.

[@purpleranger5987]

The interviews in Band of brothers were some of the best parts of the show I shed a tear when that one scene comes on with that Vet doing the same.

[@jeffersonhenley6787]

We stand on the shoulders of giants. Proud to share such rich history with this man. Semper.

[@stankaliski]

As always, very well done BRCC. Thank You for producing and posting these stories. Thank You, Don, Semper Fi.

[@opiealvin]

Don Graves is an American Treasure. Thank you for this BRCC.

[@CalebDemster-hb4nj]

Watch Don Graves interview on the Shawn Ryan show. Probably one of my favorite interviews with any WW2 combat veteran.

[@staggerinstanton56]

I could listen to Mr. Graves speak for hours. Thank you brcc for giving this great man a platform.

[@TimShieldsPhotography]

This man is awesome! Such a powerful story. Black Rifle Coffee Company, you aren't selling coffee, you are calling men to a greater purpose. Well done.

[@Bobdabuulder]

Thank you sir and everyone alike. America’s present needs to learn something from people like you

[@YacolJ]

Thank you BRCC. We need to hear these stories while these guys can still tell us. I'll listen to old war stories anytime.

[@codysheffield6902]

I am honored I get to see the man tell his story. Its said that today's generation is nothing like this.

[@irvingzisman3252]

Semper Fidelis. You guys are the reason I joined the Marines. Toughest of the tough.

[@kirkengnath5501]

Thank You for such an incredable history lesson in the first person that was in the mess of war.

[@AASLT405]

Legendary series! Keep em comin!

[@Slicknutz444]

I wish people my age(20) respected and learn and appreciate guys like him and everyone else’s who has served

[@forrestwebb8590]

Thank you very much for the video of that Marine, and the unedited video of the battle on Iwo Jima! Semper Fi

[@rovermiles1]

Bravo!!! What a story; what a life. This is a truly inspirational and heartwarming story. Thank you for all you've done.

[@BVBSEAN]

God bless you Mr. Graves, thank you for everything you’ve done for this country.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@robertmorey4104]

Awesome! I love how clear his mind is! Great poem he reads. "To all marines who pass thru these ranks, we owe them all our heartfelt thanks". Semper Fi !

[@user-un6mp8jn9p]

This is the second time I have heard his story, True American and Hero Not many people like him left anymore Thanks Mr Graves!!

[@sinister220]

I got to meet this legend personally this past Saturday. It was amazing to share even a few moments with him. It was the highlight of my evening. Thank you to BRCC as now I know even more of his story.

[@jonathancathey2334]

Back in 2004 maybe 2005. I got to briefly talk to the last living Iwo Jima flag raisers. I ended up getting an autographed photo of him R.I.P. Mr Charles W. Lindberg.

[@PatchMountainOutdoors]

Truly the greatest generation. Unfortunately there will never be another one like it.

[@midnightq69]

Lmao don’t be so dramatic and ridiculous

[@anthonyjohnson100]

I drive by the training area in Kamuela/waimea on the big island of Hawaii every day and wonder about the men who trained there. This man is was here🤯. Thank you for your service sir.

[@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423]

Thank you for keeping thier dedication and sacrifice alive, well done with the documentary BRCC 🇺🇸🎗

[@verdonix1976]

Thank you BRCC for making sure someone remembers what the cost of Freedom really is. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@NickyB0718]

The remaining few of the greatest generation. Great video.

[@TributesCarlson-im4be]

Thank you for your service

[@thomasalden6263]

Phenomenal man, truly the greatest generation, I was fortunate enough to meet an Iwo Jima marine veteran around 2008 at a Japan society dinner in Boston , he told me Iwo Jima had had the best fireworks show he’d ever seen as he watched the artillery at night from his foxhole

[@WarInHD]

Could you imagine being right next to the first Medal of Honor recipient in WW2. Absolute stud, and seeing him killed right beside you. Talk about a morale killer, I imagine all those young Marines looked at him as Superman

[@noble9759]

Thank you for the wonderful story. Enjoying this with a nice cup from you guys.

[@shibarmycryp5128]

This came out great BRCC. Thank you everything, Don!

[@BadBlue32]

Fantastic video. Another great story told. Love these so much!

[@andrewfaye652]

Thank you for this video

[@NickCat]

Another great piece guys! So well done. Lucky to have these stories passed on.

[@victorelvisknightknight9308]

Thank you for your service!!!

[@liamregan4975]

Never got to meet my grandfather and talk about his experiences, I’m forever grateful for men like Don Graves who are still alive and well and sharing those stories. I imagine it’s very painful remembering the images of so many dead and wounded marines.

[@nicks117]

Wonderful Documentary!

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

God bless you, sir. Thank you for setting a wonderful precedent for those that follow.

[@BulletproofPastor]

Great video account of true heroism. Looking closely you can notice two different sized flags on Sirabochi. Capturing the epic moment of raising a US flag on Japanese soil was important. Battle photographer Joe Rosenthal missed the first flag raising but was able to recreate the moment with a larger flag on a shorter pole (enabling it to get in the camera frame) and so emblazing the heroics of that battle forever. I was privileged to serve as hospice chaplain to William Bodine in Corpus Christi TX. He was part of the original team that raised the first flag and was present for the second flag raising. He was asked if he would be part of the second team but declined. There is another famous photograph that captures from the side, Joe Rosenthal taking the now famous flag raising image. Beyond the shot you can see four men seated and watching the picture taking. The taller man was William "Bo" Bodine. His part of raising the first flag was given full account and validation in published newspaper clippings and formally by officials at his funeral. ALL the men who fought, died, or recorded it for us in photographs from Iwo Jima are heroes. Our thanks could never be enough.

[@vwgoon]

god bless you don. loved your interview on shawns podcast as well.

[@Joshdatant]

These stories need to keep coming

[@jamesholmes5631]

Thank you sir

[@bostarbird5282]

Thank you sir for your service to our great country. God bless.

[@TroyFronczek]

Thank you Sir.....

[@johngrogan7585]

Thank you Sir!!!!!

[@CarlosAguilar-hl6os]

Wow, I really got impressed by this story. Many thanks for sharing this with us, truly inspiring. Please keep producing these extraordinary documentaries

[@officialwildcardadventures]

Amazing video. Thank you for sharing these stories. I remember watching an old black and white film about Iwo Jima.

[@officialwildcardadventures]

Don Graves would've fought alongside Ira Hayes.

[@dallasschaber8274]

As a Canadian Thankyou for this episode

[@Kana_boi]

Love listening to these Heroes

[@wyattoneable]

Outstanding!

[@haywoodjablowme883]

Thankyou for your service Sir 🙏

[@user-ub3kp4uz9k]

Incredible story. Salute hero. From Canada.

[@practicallytactical3075]

Amen. Great video

[@Elt31987]

What an amazing story. Sends chills down your spine

[@jasongraves6891]

I love to hear my great uncle talk about his time in service.

[@johnosborne1873]

BRCC content (and coffee) is peak

[@socalfun64]

I’m hooked on the best coffee from a can ever! You guys really perfected that stuff! It’s the only Coffee I’ll drink now!

[@1775MarineCorps]

Thank you for sharing on this 79th anniversary of D Day landing on IWO JIMA, Semper FI

[@tylerkennedy2797]

Happy birthday sir! Great story

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Yesterday was the 79th anniversary of the landing on Iwo Jima by the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions. How much did you hear on the News about it? 9k dead Marines and 24k total casualties. My father was one of the Marines in the 4th Marine Division that landed in the first wave. I was 10 years old in 1968 when the US government gave Iwo Jima back to Japan. I remember my father wasn't happy about it at all. He said the government should have waited until all his fellow Marines had passed on before doing that. He felt it was an insult, a slap in the face to all of the Marines that fought there. Now that I'm an old man I can see where he was coming from.

[@JEM133]

God bless you Don,you are priceless,,,,,I could listen to you for days.

[@dutchman7216]

That is great man.

[@ronaldwarren5220]

The word hero does not even come close. Thank you brother. May those who gave their lives there never be forgotten.

[@ceaserthemighty]

I got to know Mr. Graves at the Roll Call luncheons and what a patriot. Truly cut from a different cloth. The last time I saw him he sang the national anthem at the Fort Worth rodeo.

[@Blessed1963]

God bless you Sir. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Your story brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing this with us all. God bless you ❤.

[@LameWolff]

I have so much respect for this generation of which my parents were a part of. They grew up in hard times and waged a war in even harder times. Dad didn't speak much of the war until I was a grown man and the one thing I picked up listening to him, uncles and neighbors that served in WW2 was they weren't quitters.

[@ryanmclain9328]

I miss my grandfather so much

[@patmchugh8725]

Thank you and all the brave young souls, this is the story that the younger generation needs to hear and to understand what the United States went through for the freedom that we have today 🙏🏻 god bless the ones that gave all & the ones that made it home 😢

[@brandontoler2382]

Don graves.... what a stud!

[@kearnsey64]

That was awesome!

[@tonyruland3714]

Good question at the end!

[@alexelliott8197]

In modern day America it seems as if most Americans have forgotten about the sacrifices that active and veterans and first responders are forgotten. Respect to Them all.

[@jeffg4420]

God love him. Thank you Sir. I needed to hear this.

[@Ryan-bn3qk]

Incredible.

[@adriannogales7676]

captured a living Legend!

[@socalfun64]

Amazing Story and an amazing Man! My Dad was at Guadalcanal. He came home and did some great things. When those things came undone, He turned to Vodka. Broke up our Family and scared the crap outta me as an 8 y/o kid. Crazy things He did! After 25 years or so of Drinking everyday and every night He finally quit after He was told He would die. Lived another 25 years and we became much closer over those years. It took Me a long time to forgive Him for some of the most despicable things He did. I did though and He got to meet His Grandson and Granddaughter for a little while before He passed. Thank You for this video and this Mans story!

[@tymow4268]

God bless you Marine

[@user-ie1ij9nr7e]

This is powerful! God bless this man!

[@chrisbryan1474]

You made me cry, Marine. God bless you sir! Simper Fi!

[@klindsaydrumming1889]

Great interview 👍 thank you for your service devil dog!

[@AlexNH56]

Man I really need to reach out to the remaining WW2 vets and have a conversation with them. Would love to have an interview like this with them!

[@maj3stikq122]

Thank you Don, Semper Fi.

[@kenlandon7803]

He did an interview on Sean Ryan's show. Good man !

[@TruckingToPlease]

We were lucky to have the opportunity to fly down and work at Iwo on aircraft detachments from NAF Atsugi with CAG-5. Made visits to the island doing FCLP training for pre-carrier deployments out of Yokosuka. MWR offered bicycles to pedal around the island. We looked for UXO, went caving/ tunneling. Walked invasion beach looking for beach glass. Climbed down into the sulfur pits. Scouted for pill boxes. So much history for both sides of the war. After 7 years living on Japan and 3 on Guam, I have a reverent respect for what my grandfather and his bunch went through and what the Japanese held on to for as long as they could. Lest we forget, the Japanese were our allies in WWI and FDR turned off oil supplies to Japan.

[@bracoop2]

Really good video, even better guy.

[@ryanjbalis1615]

so much history has been lost. glad to see this. as well as the pieces from the gwot Era going into museums and there

[@rippleyaliens8275]

Attention on Deck. To have bear witnessed, the "15 MAN SADDLE UP"!! OF All time. To have heard the legendary words, that has changed the world, and Awoken the Beasts... The United States Marine Corps.

[@emperorfloch]

I laughed when he said I never got the sword! 😂😂😂

[@mcknightryan1]

He is a fantastic story teller.

[@shagbabyyeah]

My grandfather James Richard VanDusen was with the 3rd marines in Bougainville! He ended up leaving the marines and went to the Air Force, he then became a Medic on the planes that flew from Vietnam to Germany, he got out after the Korean War. Greatest generation.

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

Semper Fi Sir!

[@Crymorebro]

BRCC is basically an outflow interviewer from The SRS