and it’s so humbling to hear of their sacrifice and I say it over and over and over again and I will continue to say it that we must live lives worthy of their sacrifice the seventy one hundred killed a Guadalcanal the two thousand three hundred and thirty six killed a Peleliu and all the soldiers sailors airmen and Marines who as Robert Leckie said later in his life who fought or who foremost fighting fell and I think it’s also important to remember the example of Robert Leckie who by his own admission was no angel no plaster sinked but who was truly a hero and remember that that people all people have good and bad qualities and people make mistakes and they do dumb things and yet those very people are capable of so much and yet so often we judge we judge and we judge and we judge and we cast stones but but who are we to judge who are we to judge when a man like Robert Leckie lucky Leckie who not only drank to excess and chase girls and pulled a pistol on his superior officer and who got so nervous so scared yes I’m gonna call it the scared who got so scared that he would lose control of his bladder every time he went to sleep and yet he overcame that fear with more bravery in his heart than most of us can even fathom so who are we to judge we shouldn’t judge people we should help them then there’s probably nothing more we can do to live a worthwhile life than to help people to help other people and in helping other people I promise you will be rewarded and you will be helping yourself too and one more thing that we see in this book once again is the strength of human will we see men tested beyond anything we can imagine and then when they passed that test one time they get given that test again and then again and still they overcome they overcome the pain and the suffering and the fear and yeah we can’t get ourselves out of bed in the morning we can’t move toward a goal we’ve set for ourselves don’t know how that remember the Tanner rule River remember the airfield at Guadalcanal remember the discipline instilled in every marine at Parris Island and remember what you you remember what you are capable of if you mobilize your will and if you keep moving forward you keep advancing remember what you are capable of if you keep attacking and keep attacking and keep attacking and don’t stop don’t stop moving forward and don’t stop attacking and don’t succumb to the suffering and the pain and the fear don’t succumb but instead move forward and attack
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