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This is what Shakey Walls did for me with a montage of Chesty Puller – remember in USMC Boot Camp having to scream out just before rack time? "Goodnight Chesty Puller, Wherever you Are!"
Thanks Shakey, awesome job! If you would like a montage of your "hero" contact Shakey by clicking on the Shakey Walls link above.
Semper Fi!
My friend Shakey Walls creates photo memory montages for families and friends of fallen soldiers. If you like what you see here contact him at Bwalls36@gmail.com and have him build a memory montage for your military hero.
It is my sad duty report that another Marine has fallen, killed in action in Afghanistan. 23-year-old Lance Cpl. Alejandro Yazzie was killed last month while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, site of a major offensive by U.S. and Afghan forces against the Taliban.
Small consolation to the family of Cpl. Yazzie who was from the small Navajo community of Rock Point, just a short drive from where I live in NE Arizona. He is the 11th Navajo warrior to have been killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan since this nonsense started way back in 2001. Cpl. Yazzie was a combat engineer brother who had been attached to the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, CA.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and the Navajo Nation.
Semper Fi "Pancho"
Under the guise of providing a public service to the American people the Associated Press decided to overrule the wishes of our Secretary of Defense and the Marine's father and publish a picture of Marine Bernie Bernard's death in Afghanistan.
What do you expect from the media, sex sells and so does death. The Google Blog says this: "The fact the Associated Press chose to publish graphic and disturbing photographs of a young Marine killed in Afghanistan against the wishes of both the father of the Marine and the Secretary of Defense of The United States is not only appalling, and completely unconscionable it is without compassion and consideration to the effects it might have on the this man’s family. Privacy should be respected."
I agree with that statement, America does not need a refresher on the ravages of war, we have had enough of it with our last "TV War" in Vietnam.
Lance Corporal Joshua "Bernie" Bernard is our Marine of the Month with a photo as we would like to remember him.
August 1942, Marine raiders are forced to leave 19 of their KIA'S behind after their raid on Makin Island. The islanders promised to take care of them until the Marines came back for them. In 1999 they did, this is their story.
