Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt Graunke, who was a member of a Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July of 2004.
I found most of these photos and their background stories very interesting to say the least. Others, like the aforementioned #26, #12 and #3 feel more like publicity crap to me.
After all, shipping around half the world to shoot at foreign guys in their own country so that the few extra-rich bastards at home could sell more oil and become even richer... Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
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Go USA!!!!!!!