“The Outsider” - Decades before ‘Flags of our Fathers’ this 1961 film follows Ira Hayes from basic training, to Iwo Jima, and the years following the war. Gain an appreciation of Ira’s demise as survivor’s guilt is thrust into the hero’s spotlight.
Hidden Gem: One of the best accounts of just how happenstance the second flag raising was.
Mario Rigoni Stern
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I’m sad to announce that Mario Rigoni Stern is dead, tonight. He was 86-years old and he was ill since long time.
He was a great writer. He wrote “Il Sergente nella neve” (“The sergeant in the snow”), the most popular book about the tragic italian retreat from Ukraine, during WW2. He was a gunner sergeant of the Alpini Expeditionary Corp. You can learn more by clicking on the links on my signature, or by searching in the web.
Goodbye, old sergeant.
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It seems like more and more of the “Greatest Generation” are slowly passing away. :cry:
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It seems like more and more of the “Greatest Generation” are slowly passing away. :cry:
I thought that only applied to Americans and their Allies?
And I wonder why they might be passing away…hmm…
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I’m going to go with “they’re really old”…
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