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brussels staged a fake funeral for the euro this week it came as the e.u. agreed another multibillion bailout for greece the new austerity cuts demanded in return sparked more anger in athens i'll be back with more news for in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime it's the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran outraged by what he believes is the indifference of his country towards the memory of foreign soldiers. in the fall of one nine hundred forty three america began a major campaign against the japanese defenses in the central pacific. over thirty five thousand u.s.

marines and naval forces were assembled for an invasion. on november twentieth america launched in five years assault against one of the most heavily fortified japanese islands in the world to. the south on board a higgins landing craft ensign leon cooper was responsible for the lives of hundreds of men. for the thousands of marines riding to the shores that morning no one can imagine the ferocity of the battle to come or the death and destruction its face. in february two thousand and eight the on cooper a navy veteran of the tower about and a film crew left los angeles on a journey that took sixty five years. to. be looked. down on.

while doing research for my recent book the war in the pacific a reference back. i happened across a not so she had a press report that said in effect. where hundreds of marines died there are now millions of plastic bags crumpled paper boxes and when i saw that of course. since i have been a party. or a witness to all of the killings that took place i felt especially. and i need to do something about this. i was. in my parents' apartment building in chicago i remember seoul well. that dramatic announcement. really shook me up as well as practically all of america including all the big shots in washington i magine

a tiny country like japan. attacking our pacific fleet then pearl harbor but and indeed for all intents and purposes making america the giant a people mention. of the world oh oh. some of the. stuff like. the. law. but you want i did. and looked out for me. at the law for iraq with my brother. my brother said believe he was trying to decide whether order me to get out of the country. or to find a safer occupation than being him but i am country man that's all i had was first

thought that i should become an officer rather than i don't face. and of course i had all of the time i thought a good ole maybe officer training program called the seven so i volunteered for it. within ninety days civilian the on call the would you come navy instantly on cooper and begin training as an amphibious boat commander. taro was a series of coral reef atolls in the cupboard on a group strategically located halfway between the wind islands in the philippines. the goober islands had been under the jurisdiction of the british government to december ninth one nine hundred forty one two days after the attack on pearl harbor japanese soldiers came ashore additional governing island that told tara and proclaim that for the emperor. both sides understood incessantly to control arms across the city. the american commands tactical approach dated back to teddy

roosevelt's assessment of world sea diplomacy devised for the late nineteenth century roosevelt always believed that if the u.s. was to contain japanese expansion they would need to command strategic island bases across the pacific. the basic strategy first of all i can talk looks like a good thing and i decided the best course of action for the united states to set up hearing alec calling a ship holiday a polling station lock up some other costs etc but let's look at the stumbling block and the bad in fact that the fact. that. the japanese conscripted over forty one hundred korean slave laborers to build up a show's defenses as well as a small airstrip. they sent in over twenty six hundred cracked japanese imperial marines to defender. massive fortifications were both

including giant pillboxes some over seven hundred feet in height ten large eight inch gun emplacements field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. the war in the pacific was commanded by two key figures general douglas macarthur and admiral nimitz. after the japanese lost the battle for a broader canal in the south pacific macarthur and his troops focused on recapturing new guinea nimitz handled the central pacific region and plans were drawn up to send forces against the japanese strongholds in the gilbert and marshall islands groups mark no one is and u.p.s. part of the world war two military historian he heads the nonprofit organization history flights they're working to locate the over seventy eight thousand missing in action from the second world war wrote way saying here is

a the deed to intelligence maps that the u.s. marine corps put together for what they called helen island which was the code name for a base you know a toll and tara weiland region and they built this very complex now with all of the difference in information that they gleaned from a number of overflights from b. twenty four aircraft taking photographs of the island and it has pictures of all different and machine gun positions and the different types of large caliber weapons that would be used in a to shoot landing craft that has pictures it's tank traps the reds the airstrip. and june of one nine hundred forty three american recognizance flights discover that base you know had been transformed into a heavily defended outpost the now included a four thousand foot airstrip capable of supporting japanese bombers this dramatically extended their pacific sphere of office. after hearing this

news nimitz in the pacific fleet command decided to invade tower. upon his arrival at fiji liam was interviewed by reporters for a fiji sun article on his visit to the nation of care my job was to bring us all for every my boat. during many trips into the red beach. so. the three days of savage are a. top of the japanese how to kill more americans. and taught us. how to deal more stupid thing. what the hell is that mean. leone's first official meeting with american authorities would be with deputy assistant to the u.s. ambassador in cuba ted may. first of all we're here to meet with the ambassador has

tapped ambassador. especially wanted to have. a speak with him before we want. he promised he would do his best to join us and taro i introduce us to. be president of. the country that includes terrell hey i need my grammar's license back stuff let me get that i know there's no guarantee and. thanks to ambassador in a staff again i feel very confident it will be on the road to achieving something even minimal objectives at least we'll get an action program going underway. with ted man a company leon border to jet for the highlight of his journey a return to tower. as the fortifications of base year were told the tower will continue the japanese commander admiral sugar saki boasted to his troops that one million americans could

not take the island in one hundred years. however american naval and marine forces with some test that play the november twentieth nine hundred forty three the united states launched a major and four u.s. offensive against. a massive naval bombardment the place starting at zero. point nine am as wave after wave of marines were launched from the ships the logistics of the battle to combat turning. the tide is not as deep as what they had projected it would be a project that would be about six to seven feet above the fringing reef that they would land and there was a lot of confusion between the naval bombardment they were supposed to cease fire and there was the aviation detachment of a vine or a craft and fighter aircraft on the island and there was some confusion and they actually had a cease fire there was about thirty minutes when there was no firing. and it

enabled the japanese would take a lot of their soldiers from the south side of the heavily defended part and move them up to the north side of the aisle. and in doing so they were able to bring considerable devastating fire on the marines as they entered the again. the japanese a kind of defense strategy that covered every inch of the island from the hundreds of marines were killed by the accurate mortaring heavy gunfire at the research many had to disembark offshore and slog through with a ring machine gun fire dangerous mines and deep bomb craters and hope to make it to shore. among the first waves of many heroes save the day one was a young lieutenant alexander bonnie rallied his men to push him and be on the pier to the sea world. after sixty five years leon cooper finally returned to that fateful stretch of sand that had shaped his destiny

. ironically his first encounter at the airport the descendants of his former us. i'm from the united states. teleport all that hard to get that. i was here sixty five years ago. i was a member of the who said attacks as the japanese who are here defending this island . and we were not very friendly toward each other. we were angry toward each other

and a lot of people got killed including over four thousand of your of your your people are you live here and i want to honor your country man who was died in the battle of carolina. they own the fed and i see things happening. and i feel like. i'm not really here and on. the first item of business was from the on in ted to meet with the assistant to the president of cared about in the hopes that they could access the president of the police releasing the first of the three at the short list of people and title businesses but if you a little to little this is look at least two percent to the ministers despite the fact that because of what happened sixty five years ago i had no desire whatsoever to return but after giving a great deal of thought to the matter i felt i could do something that would be of benefit both to the citizens of your country as well as to honor the memory of all

those guys. died and a war in a battle that really was the beginning point of the defeat of japan. i had a small part to play in that victory. and i'm glad i had the opportunity all that time i didn't think very much of my participation i wanted to be somewhere else. i know that's great your but there i recognize her from here beyond drove to the beach that haunted many years ago we came in from where we came from where. i know that one week. i spell the stench of all those bodies running in the sun sills comes back comey. all that stink of guys decomposing.

and i came ashore about here. and i know why the bed the beach master as i remember her coat motioned to me come on the shore and i was to go to the pier you see what sticking out there is the remains of the pier i came ashore about here between here and the pier and i crouched behind the sea well. and the chaps were shooting at me from up there somewhere. they were shooting at me from every angle there was you see they had this whole thing and plated and designed so that all the approaching boats came in under murderous crossfire so there wasn't any we're going to get out of the line of fire they were shooting at from here from there and from there every goddamn angle was covered and we bungled and stumbled right into all this. slaughter. by the end of the day the marine second battalion was holding

on to a seventy to three hundred foot stretcher. and fifteen hundred of the five thousand americans at the beach and read to dad. i'm just. i can't stand it. look at the look at this sand here i couldn't get anywhere near the sand i was going up on the reef. there was a tank right about here have been not sure michael. vaughan. got stuck on the earliest and i were the only guys on my boat i think i remember saying let's go i left both and i said no because i knew these guys would have gone because we were over

a hundred yards from sand and they would have gone with their every packs how did this happen i don't know i think i said i think i had no say in the boat they were trying to climb out of the boat by the japs were shooting out i said head skyward and we found that access through the reef and that's when i landed these guys happened i don't know i don't know i think i did i think. however despite the heavy casualties from the disaster was. a coordinated japanese congress act might have overrun the exhaust. but there was no communication from the japanese command and the japanese admiral in charge of shivah saki decided to move is headquarters from this area to the south part of the island and when they were doing that they went outside of their bunker and a five and shell exploded right near them and killed them off and in doing that in

losing their tactical commander on the first day of battle the japanese did not mount counter attack in the night which potentially could have driven the marines right off the island. i've had my moment of. let's go take a look at those eight inch. the legacy of the battle is still scattered across the sands of day she'd go to this day the island is covered with the rusting remains of several of the big guns including the eight inch emplacements. tanks. heavily fortified top boxes and the command post. the second day of the invasion was a precarious one for the americans although they had secured two small beaches the marines still had to fight in spite inch to the airfield that bisected the island. after waiting nearly twenty hours in their boats the first battalion eighth marines

attempted to land ashore almost half of them never made it to the beach a large number of the all the kids were knocked out of action in the first day and after that they had to use primarily hagan's beds in the hagans boats were dropping the marines off at the fringing reef as they couldn't make it all the way up to the island and the marines had to go about seven hundred yards across a tidal flat then in doing so they were basically wading through waist deep water all along this area from red beach three two and one into the face of tremendous japanese fire the battle had many own some heroes in the midst of the landings a young naval officer was on board a higgins boat in the horrible calmly rescuing routed marines from the water while several enemy machine gunners tried to knock him out. that young lieutenant j.g. was a deodorant and he was a rising hollywood actor before this thing in the evening he had stored in several movies and with major headline television shows including

a popular series green acres i was sitting out there with a bunch of brains and one of the know who the fuck is that somebody asked me and i said i don't know it's an easel a navy guy of some kind hands that guy's been out there for the last fifteen twenty minutes and the jets are shooting at him and he's hauling guys out of the water i said this guy is either brave or stupid or both and but he kept doing it then he made several trips back each time with a boat load of went wonderbra under marines going back to the transport ship for medical treatment with these guys. and he saved the lives of nearly seventy marines that day. i got to know a number of the medical doctors we had eight as they're a member aboard. and the senior medical officer of an old guy and i chance conversation i want to know what his specialty was he said that my gynecologist and not seeing the may to be about as absurd a thing as i could imagine i said you know just possibly any one of us might be

prayed and he said i'll take care of you. but there was another guy among the eight he also and a chance higher chance conversation i want to know what history actually was he's a path ologist by training and i said you're a natural for this you can be sure and take care of all of us so the medical doctors on my ship as well as on the number of other transports there purities guys i remodeled remember distinctly on my many trips carrying the wounded back to my ship for medical treatment one of them died but how many others died you can only guess were these guys able to deal with trauma with war ones i doubt it. despite the initial casualties at the beach heavy naval bombardments helped turn the tide. to tenet alexander bonhomie rallied his marines and

singlehandedly launched a major assault on a large bunker full one hundred fifty japanese defense during the course of the skirmish he was more than he wanted the marines finally worked their way inland and began to push the japanese defenders back to the airfield. just behind the rusting giant eight inch guns that protected the shore leon was shocked by what he saw. out i'm pointing to what seems to me the very symbol of every word thing that represents the need and they reason for my trip they say we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is very most appropriate so signification has a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died.

today children flee war in the old keys me. june one hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nasa troops on their way to moscow. restless were done one by one under siege this. was a. pillow. in the last shelter and unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell mother. dying but i'm not surrendering.

but i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a can cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. some was it or sue come here make fun of me. pick up garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me as. well and. that i feel people will start to appreciate us.

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