2008-05-21 / Opinion
One who represents so many lost Americans
Editorial
A young Marine by the name of Mike Strank landed on the beaches of Iwo Jima in 1945. At 25, he was the oldest of his Company, and assumed the awesome responsibility of bringing his young charges through one of the war's bloodiest and most important battles on a blackened piece of rock in ownership of the Japanese.
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