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theoddz · 04-19-2010, 06:42 PM

If you have HBO, I highly recommend the new 10 part series The Pacific. It's produced and filmed by the same outstanding group who produced Band of Brothers. I can't help but be extremely enthusiastic about this show, because it's about the unit I served with, the 1st Marine Division.

It's certainly worth watching and focuses on how the war affected the Marines who fought the Japanese in the Pacific. Every now and then, I run across an old Marine where I work, the most recent an old grizzled retired Sgt.Maj. who fought at the battle of Iwo Jima. He finally finished his 28 year career as the command Sgt.Maj of the Marine detachment aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, during Vietnam. When I met Sgt.Maj. Leo Tucker, I met a living hero. He truly was a hero of "the old breed". When I shook his hand and introduced myself, for some odd reason, it felt like I was touching across the generations of Marines who have served. He had served in the "fighting 1st MarDiv".

If you get a chance, watch it.

Semper Fidelis,
~Theo~

04-19-2010, 06:42 PM	#36
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