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Thanks for the kind words, Eric and Rooger.

I can't thank my friends enough in this forum who have asked questions and been friends of mine. You mean a lot to me. After all this time (67 years) I've been blessed enough to tell my story.
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Oh yeah? Isn't that something!

Stop by anytime.

What company were you in?

Hello Marines,

Sorry I've not been around lately. I've just been working on my golf game. I'm thinking about going pro. Haha! Seriously, my book is now available for some pre-orders on the...

A few days ago I ran across a WWII message forum, so I decided to talk to ome of the fellas in there...and while a few seem interested in what happened in the Pacific, I was shocked to find they were...

Hello Marines. It's been a while since I've been in here, but I thought you fellas might like to read a something from my book that didn't make the final cut. I liked this part, but in the end it...

With a crowbar, son.

I'm not trying to plug my book, Marines. But the subject is touched upon in my book. I'm not even sure we had a word for them back in my day. Maybe sissies or "kinda...

Do we have any Korean War veterans in here?

Thank you,
Sterling G. Mace

Marine...This sort of brings back things full circle, because growing up in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York, we had a VFW hall...and it was full of drunken Great War veterans. To us kids, it was...

Mike,
That's very interesting and it brings up something I touched upon in my book a little.

How do kids view us older vets? Honestly, I don't put much thought into whether they care or not. ...

This was a very good read. Thank you. The 1st Marines were done as a fighting unit very early on Peleliu. It's sad really.

Sterling G. Mace

Scott, I don't know too much about films, but from what I understand this Band of Brothers spent a lot of time with the men who actually served, while the one of the Pacific didn't speak to any of...

Dave,
It goes to press in July I believe, which should mean about 6 months later. At least that's what they're telling me. I can't wait too much longer though or I'll die. hahaha.

Sterling...

I've seen a little bit of the Band of Brothers and I was invited to the red carpet premier of the Pacific in New Orleans. I've seen that one too.

The Pacific, while well meaning, was quite a...

It wasn't about what the kid said that bugged me. It was everything that I've experienced since the war. The other day there was all this talk on the face book about this guy Shifty Power's book,...

Gentlemen, thank you. Perhaps I should thump my chest in an Army site. haha. No, this just got my dander up a little bit.

Of course there were so few of us compared to those guys in the Army...

Marines...

I'm not one to bellyache much, but if you've been living with this - as I have - for 66 years, it begins to ache a little in your heart of hearts.

A well meaning kid (from the...

"Spoonin' under the moon."

There was this apparatus that affixed to your car door, right where the window rolled down, and it would hang out of your car…you would put ice water in it – lots of ice – and the air moving through...

Thank you fellas, I know you are sincere. It kind of reminds me of a joke title for my book that I used to tell the locals:

"Saving the World, by Saving my Ass...One Nip at a Time."

Yeah,...

Bill,
There's no words adequate enough to express how I feel when I hear news like this. Your son made a better world for us all. Just remember that he left this world a better place for his...

Yes, that's Larry, too. He was from Dobbs Ferry, NY. I didn't see that about Rob or Rose. I wonder who they could be. I will try them in Yonkers.

Thank you for your help. Quite a bunch of...

Thank you, Sarge. That is both Sy Levy whom I was only 20 feet away from when he was killed (where I later found out was the China Wall), and Larry Mahan who was with L/3/5 and was hit on the beach...

I realize that a lot of these search places for Marine buddies are not design for people my age - that someone who died 66 years ago is tall order, to find info, pictures, etc...

Actually I don't...

Mr. Merrell,
What was your outfit and your MOS? I was in K/3/5, 1st Marine Division, landing on April 1st, as well.
Yes, it got real rough for us as soon as we headed south. That would be...