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flee because of their support for colonel gadhafi. skeptics in brussels staged a fake funeral for the euro this week came as the e.u. agreed another multi billion bailout for greece but the stairs he cuts demanded in return spots more anger in athens. well the news continues in less than thirty minutes from now but in the meantime as the scene of a world war two battlefield is turned into a rubbish dump we follow one man's struggle to raise public awareness and preserve the site that's a special report next on r.t. but. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health thousand when the refuse and swept out to sea during the storm. despite this danger and leon saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant nearby where aluminum cans are crushed in both cans and bottles. leon paid

a visit to the owner and manager of the plant there are underwater i wrote repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house press secretary defense chairman of the joint chiefs of staff members of congress so i'm here to began and hopefully an action program with funding from my government will be tough and. we starting to see how the army can. fathi for. a cop every way here is said in a nutshell what i'm thinking if we should expand your operation clean up the beach on red beach one would be my primary objective because my son is a language but you can understand my anger and having seen this desecration of hallowed ground war on red beach leon had developed an action plan for

a base year that included two phases the first would be to set up refuse containers and collection centers throughout the beaches and employ local citizens the second phase would be to establish state of the art incineration systems that would recycle trash as well as provide electricity for the island the ons action plan could be used for any island race and diminishing my interest sources. the local fiji television station people interview your own story and his current mission the terror. years trying to say. ok we will be ok. there are two can be on out in his boat to revisit the scene of the battle. i used to have a nightmare. i granted for years afterwards. i had some rather. fallen into the water and i had sunk down and there was

a kid sitting on i sure my tank. he was a he he waved at me he and i are about twenty maybe thirty feet under water and i was looking at him wondering what the fuck are you doing here he was sitting on top of the sherman tank and the core was a wall around a bright yellow red blue car all was all around us and it was this kid very happily sitting on top of the triple take and that's a dream that i had for years. i had told my wife. if i start sweating round i'd just leave the bread because i get. that kind of crazy i'm not aware of it but anyway. she she knew when i made those morning sounds i couldn't talk because of i began to speak i would drown i would swallow water later that day beyond visited the residence of john and molly brown she showed

a movie about the battle for power prior to a tour of the sites. since the. three. over the years the browns have collected munitions in their back yard a number of shells are still life. that frank rich. just for these are. from five and thirty from america just for offering this to

a long and. yet you don't pick it please not a one arm or dangerous shells and weapons of all shapes and sizes a majority of them american constantly turn up on base you although these of cause deaths and injuries to the local population over the years there is no exact figure provided by the kid about government my cord or a local australian naval commander on the island still has the difficult task of dealing with world war two ordinates. the issue here is that no one is caged turning out how they got rid of everyone it's really like either but it's all right to stop them just keep setting up whatever and it's amazing what some people you know there's a lot of friends former discovered it was one sort of a chicken curry you know that i had standing upright. he had a bomb and i think it's a definite bomb and are using it as i just want to convince. you know

leon was introduced to australia next tatts involved in exploring the history of the battle of tara. stan gosh that is a professional diver an innocence expert and peter scarlett has lived on the island for over fifteen years stan has done hundreds of dimes often a.c.o.s. and is employed by history flights and there can be a program to survey the island for lost graves out there so there's an i'm trying i'm just looking at the this footage of the waste that's a visually full of right. that's what's in the water becoming more here's a picture of it that's the vision this is the focus here. the waves into sections there on the floor of. the debris from the battle still covers the island and every storm on earth new ordinance sand showed leon a fifty caliber machine gun sitting in the water a few yards from the beach front home can't tell. as if that's a fifty fifty caliber machine. silver cup again we're talking played on the

stand keeps a storage container full of the weapons and munitions he's collected this is going for sixty million more to choose the seaway. us more and more there is a lot more and edible goods. to appears and disloyal. to the motor. a lot imo kill the fish like this. still voice over the radio portable radio that was run out of a boy named frank already baked goods this is a part of the job but probably supposed officer from him a good little dug up and also tells it is a make i can see the nickel cup of. the books event edition of the japanese still going to take for the main gun it's a thirty seven zero room still used to hold closer to the lower. lip on

your head like this very carefully. by the end of day to the ground coming colonel sure who had been wounded by shrapnel during his landing the day before rallied his troops to capture the airport runway this effectively cut the enemy defenses into. day three began with an easier landing of additional marines at the western shore as the american forces began to outflank the japanese defenders that morning a chance event was taking place in the skies near by a flight of hellcat fighter planes on routine patrol from the aircraft carrier lexington accidentally intercepted a formation of twenty japanese he cried is based from nearby morphologic. the japanese were on a mission to bomb in st the tower landing force. by ten

o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to their base the marines on base here were safe from potentially devastating casualties. meanwhile supported by reinforcements and artillery fire from nearby islands the marines used all means necessary to systematically take out the japanese defenders they slowly advance through the narrow eastern tip of the ark. leon paid a visit to mother superior margaret sullivan at our lady of the sacred heart mission she showed him the declaration the japanese government is at a just hours after they took over the island and now that you have money and playwright warning of japan was going to occupy these island all the sudden they simply showed up as i write today i was at three o'clock i want to look up at the descendants of those that build up now to where they land and basically as is

outreach to local officials continued leon and ted met with the minister of interior. for more than three years i've been trying to get our government to do something about the desecration that is happening to the beaches where so many americans died in defense of our country so i've. made was a. good list of a lot of. lives will be a little closer. to the show than liana tape from fiji television was broadcast all the islanders. but if i was. just a fool i think the number of trips to the stuff i saw selling it was like everyone wanted to like the first stuff. and never did it. all the time coming

up thinking surely. nothing. but because i. still thought i was a damned thing that pisses me kills many at the end of. the world i did something helpless for something that just. simply because i. should. buy one trove pm on november twenty third of the island was declared secure over five thousand five hundred men lay dead on the sands one thousand one hundred thirteen american marines and two thousand two hundred ninety reported only one japanese officer and two enlisted men survived along with fourteen korean neighbors the entire island was a fast twisted wasteland the death and destruction. american and japanese bodies covering the island were

a mute testimony to the ferocity of the bomb. one marine commented that it was the closest thing to dante's inferno you never seen. it was a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordnance. now came the grim task of collecting and burying bodies. general holland snus the marine commander was reputed to have said later that cairo was a tragic mistake. after the battle and the marines would bury their dead e-tail caught much of the gravesite and within a matter of days return to their ships. meanwhile the burial were continued on

a ship. identification was made more difficult by the condition in the composition of several bodies and a number were lost at sea. i unfortunately had the unpleasant duty of attending a number of burials at sea i can't remember how many at least a half a dozen but one of the stands out in my memory in particular the chaplain who was in charge of the burial details i was standing next to him after he said his usual words before we dumped the guy into the deep and i certain the chaplain hasan who was a sky and he said we don't know and i said well his dog tags there in the sailcloth he said. and i can't imagine anything more that needs to be said other than they actually serve addicted us treatment in yes absolutely indifferent treatment was given to all these guys who had died in defense of our country. lieutenant bonded

with a posthumous medal of honor winner for his valor in the battle would be buried in the eighth marines grave site number two the navy seabee units which were the logistic backbone of every operation more than clean up the battlefield can quickly go to infrastructure to support an airfield. this is a picture of the island after the c.d.c. cleaned it up and turned it into a modern air base you can see some of the temporary scimitar as there is thirty three twenty six twenty five this is part of the old pier right here the island basically had forty three cemeteries on it and in building it into a modern air base they basically erased some of the senators. who we think and how it is when working for the australian government as a contractor. he has made some unusual discoveries building base use infrastructure he knew that there was one instance we dug below the water table this is the one

that stain very interested in and we found it really in complete skeleton he still had partial uniform whose watch and a bit of advice one of the others how might be a good thing the better part of yes rather the rather the way a lot of the line in the front of me was. talked last quarter was the p.d.f. silly side of it and nothing else now. so you told somebody in a government the us government about this. project they could be the product of a project manager and he believed right off to. the bone limit organization but what happened was the the warner a and b. buttons in that up in my office in the right space. and i think playing a craftsman or at a truck graphic drawing fire and this bag was underneath the pipe. and they would

say it will now sample on sun a letter to them it's not much as the organization what we should do with the crime and then it was a reply here which will as. we can the forever war did i feel almost like he's one of my canyon on leon had spent months seeking assistance from every level of government to address the garbage situation and be sure now he discovered something even more disturbing that hundreds of marines remains still alive in the sands of the island. just as we've been told by the guys we met with. down on the ground and almost anywhere you walk you see the mortal remains of somebody japanese american he was introduced to the minister of culture to the point of cuba i visited saxon place i don't lie the things that i want to do

to help you ultimately he was granted a meeting with the president of care and hope to talk it will involve the employment of citizens of care of property who will. assist italy in the monitoring of the refuse collection of your country and ultimately. a state of the art incineration system. which will have a number of benefits of course. the brutality of the tower campaign would soon hit home when the american public began to see the pictures of the casualties and devastation in late december nine hundred forty three the gruesome carnage was so disturbing that some mothers demanded nimitz's resignation what was more striking was not just the heavy casualties but the confusion regarding the burial of hundreds of marines who gave their lives ataru and the actual number of total missing people from this from this

battle was five hundred eleven basically it's a very nebulous number there's a huge distance here there is eleven hundred six people asked. at the end of the war when the army came back to doing these people and taken back to the states only three hundred ninety two were brought back to the states there's over well over two hundred fifty probably almost three hundred people on the island today the quartermaster corps of the of the army made a reasonably good effort starting in february of one thousand nine hundred eighty six and winding up in. may of nineteen forty six to find the remains of approximately three hundred maybe four hundred guys but. the report that i read issued by the guy in charge says that they could not account for almost

fifty percent of the people who were brought back to the states those are real graves those are real people who were brought back but there was over three hundred that were never brought back and those people's names are still listed as missing in action today although many of them we have pictures of their graves we have pictures of the maps of where they were buried those people those families were never told here's your family member and return to the states those people are still lost in space this is a photograph for. bernard she leaves grave on the west side of the island near what was known as green beach and that's a photograph of his grave and he's still missing today this is someone named steve momar who no one even knows who he is and no you can't even find. a mention of him in any of the original rosters here's a picture of grave number eighteen with robert brand baseball norman jr frank

as the sea and henry lot so they're all still missing today. this is a photograph of grave number eleven where there are one hundred forty five graves and only thirty two were dysentery and this is a plot map of great number thirty three were four hundred people were were listed as being buried but in reality only hundred twenty nine are recovered one of those people by the way is alexander von eamonn who was who won the congressional medal of honor in the ballots are one and in doing so he lost his life and he was buried in one of these cemeteries and never found lieutenant i would zander bonnington was one of four congressional medal of honor winners were also included first lieutenant hawkins william ward. and the only survivor of the colonel david shaw. bunnymen and many of the brave men were on the you know his mind when he paid his respects at the marine monument which has been placed in a parking lot away from the litter on the beaches as

a fitting tribute to the many missing in action and still lost on this tiny stretch of coral leon pays his respects to a special marine soames lies here he came with a close watch or is memorial a beautiful war and so those guys who gave their lives. in defense of their country and ours too by the way and the brits the australians in a room with there's. no more allies here but soames is not he lives here or somewhere we're i'm standing i'm not on margrave i like our government on recognized forgotten and of no value. god rest him. and i feel very sad about him and his relatives in the intense difficulty of world war two many people seventy nine thousand of them basically

were lost in space and this is an example of different branches of the service not being able to communicate effectively with each other and show where they left all these people and this is not an on usual island i mean this is an enormous mistake that happened during an enormously difficult time in american history and this was a reticence generation of people because after world war two many people does that all the time we get on with our lives and this issue is a done issue but in reality a lot of people's families don't feel that way leon and the crew finally head home where for him the work has just begun he is determined to fight until action is taken by our government i'm going to present the documentary in tucson to feinstein and hopefully have her take the necessary action have appropriations provided to parallel so that the garbage control program and the public education program could

get underway before taro sinks under the ocean a couple of guidelines in the twelve thirteen island archipelago arnaldo also the need for the ocean and it's only a matter of time maybe a dozen years or twenty or thirty years before the entire island group will be called a newish lattice because there won't be any general. after nearly sixty five years of passed many unanswered questions remain hundreds of americans are still lost in the sands of a ship and there's a dangerous as well as disastrous environmental legacy that remains on this tiny atoll and many other islands throughout the pacific campaign. for beyond cooper the battle is just beginning.

i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a key. than cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. some businesses who come here make fun of me. regular 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. that one. that i feel people will start to appreciate us.

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