You guys are the Marine's doctors; There's no better in the business than a Navy Corpsman...." Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, U.S.M.C |
Hospital Corpsman John Bradley was with the Marines as they raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi. He was one of the three survivors from the flag raising to leave Iwo Jima. John Bradley died January 11, 1994 at the age of 70. |
The following was written on the back of a C-Rat box in Dec. of 1969.
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He waits, silent
clutching his Unit One Wondering about this time A flash as a 'copter drops a flare And midnight turns to noon And hell reaches them all racing forward, past sanity Insanity calls pushing him forward Regardless of death to a fallen friend Bullets falling that scream Die falling inches away Working his best Moving up, blood racing in his veins and dropping in a wound Made hours ago He thinks of himself His sergeant says stop but he remembers a Creed Taken years ago And again moves forward into hell |
blood and gun grease
the sound of death The words of life his morphine spent And his plasma used Nothing left but a Creed sounds in his ears above 'copters and total hell Up to a fallen friend Who looks up to a face of Christ and smiles Bullets shatter the night Somewhere a mother perhaps a wife Thank God for a life She says a prayer for an unknown person who saved his life. |
Published in the Baltimore, (Maryland) Evening Sun, December 15, 1970 | COPYRIGHTED 1970
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