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Story and photos by Nancy Lee White Hoffman
When I was kid, all I wanted to be when I grew up was a singer; however, two things got in my way. First off, I was shy, painfully shy, and secondly, I couldn’t sing well. Yet it was all I wanted to do for the longest time...Read more.
VIDEO: Jack McLean recounted his upbringing, including attending Phillips Andover Academy where he was a classmate of George W. Bush, and his decision to join the Marines and serve in the Vietnam War rather than attend college. Read more.Watch Video.Buy Book.
AUDIO: "I Am America" was written on the morning of Sep. 11, 2001, by David A. Stiglitz, a former U.S. Marine. Watch and listen.
It was a routine Saturday convoy for members of Embedded Training Team 3-5, set to deliver supplies to another base.
Five humvees and six Afghan National Army (ANA) light pickup trucks moved out of Forward Operating Base Bostick early Saturday afternoon, Oct. 18, 2008. Bostick was a joint Army-Marine base with four smaller combat outposts. Bostick was well up in the mountains north and east of Asadabad, and less than a mile from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The Marines were led by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin T. "Ty" Edwards, the senior Embedded Training Team leader, mentoring the Afghan Army's 2/2 Kandak (Battalion).
The convoy had been on the road for less than an hour when it entered a sweeping S-curve on the narrow highway and was ambushed. LtCol Edwards was thought dead, but was seriously wounded. Evacuated, beginning a tortuous, painfully long recovery, he is ably supported by his family and dedicated fellow Marines--of all eras. We are proud of his continuing progress. (See Leatherneck's "Ambush in the East," March, page 30.)
MC3 William Selby talks with Marines reenacting part of the Battle of Belleau Wood for a new film that will be part of a Marine Corps Museum exhibit. Department of Defense
From The Blog: "I would like to nominate William "Wild Bill: Schwerin, first knew him as Captain on Saipan, then as a Major during Occupation of Japan . . . An inspiration to all who knew him and never dodged a fight!"Roy Eakin
Return to Makin Island
The video story of the locating, recovering, respectful returning and identifying of the remains of Marines killed during the Carlson Raider's August 1942 assault on Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll.Read more:
