Indestructible Marine Earns Medal Of Honor At 17 Years Old - Jack Lucas

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  @the_fat_electrician · 2 years ago · pinned

  Sorry for the delay on this one hopefully it was worth the wait!

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• JB

  @jbnavynuke1 · 2 years ago

  So Jack Lucas is reason why my VA disability is untouchable. Not only is he a hero, he protected millions of veterans.

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• PR

  @PrinnyKnight · 2 years ago

  The fact that medal of honor recipients have to pay any taxes at all is fucking absurd.

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• TH

  @ThumperE23 · 2 years ago

  Cool fact, when the keel was laid for the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), Jack Lucas placed his MoH Citation in the keel and, to this day, is still sealed in the Hull of that ship, which transports Marines into battle.   So, maybe his plot armor was passed to the ship.

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  @Frog-Shaped-Slime · 1 year ago

  i think the funniest thing about this whole story is the fact that he signed up at 14 to go to war when you needed to be 17 but ended up going to war at 17 anyways, but had a fuckload of sidequests

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• DO

  @DocRob23 · 2 years ago

  Can we just pause to appreciate the Navy Corpsman, too? The bad ass, without thinking, ran to help a downed Marine that everyone else had passed over, threw a grenade, thinking it was live, and when two Japanese charged at him and Jack, he killed them with brutal efficiency before returning to triage and care for Jack.

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• PI

  @pickpickpickpickpickpick · 2 years ago

  I jumped wrong and twisted my ankle before I finished high school, this guy jumped on two grenades and lived to tell the tale? <br>Some people are just built different

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• TH

  @thelion5968 · 2 years ago

  Marines are built differently:<br>- dumb<br>- strong as hell<br>- they can swim

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• BU

  @buffalobill9958 · 1 year ago

  My grandfather was in the 82nd. When he was in Korea he jumped, parachute didn&apos;t open, reserve didn&apos;t open. He hit the ground and bounced across the road. Then a Chinese soldier rode by and shot him in both his legs and left him. He was in a full body cast for a year then when back into the Army as a medic

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• RI

  @riverrat1284 · 2 years ago

  Please do not stop telling these heroes stories. You keep there memories going, and as long as someone remembers, they’re stories will live on. Thank you sir for what you do!!!

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• AL

  @alexanderherd2973 · 2 years ago

  &quot;If i hear the explosion its already missed me&quot; is the single most marine corp quote i think i have ever heard.

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• MJ

  @mjr8888 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0rsKayU8k&amp;t=2312">38:32</a> &quot;He doesn&apos;t have Tinnitus he has elevennitus&quot; had me laughing at work.

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