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Heroism Now and Then
Reclaiming Mt. Suribachi. Also: CNN no more. GOP's winning final lap. Pelosi's doozy. Plus much more.
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Re: Yale Kramer’s
The View
From Mt. Suribachi
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I became a Marine in 1969. I will always be a Marine.
I think it was too bad that the most costly and illustrative battle waged by my beloved Corps was portrayed in the revisionist historical sense of Spielberg and Eastwood. It is more than unfortunate.
p>I think Mr. Kramer’s appraisal is exactly right. br> — Tom Masles br> Alamo, California /p> p> Thanks to Yale Kramer for thoroughly exposing the flaws of Clint Eastwood’s politically correct movie of Flags of Our Fathers
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