Veteran's Day Salute

[KS Toronado]

16. When I found that one my mind went back about 40 years

when I meet a Marine Veteran who's unit landed on every beach in the Pacific. He had all kinds of stories
how they outfoxed the enemy, the one I've always remembered was how they screwed two 2x4s to a M1
rifle with the rear one tall enough to hold a helmet and a string to pull the trigger. One foxhole would have
a couple of those set ups doing all the firing and drawing all the attention and then the other foxholes would
carefully look around and get bead on the enemy.

Here's the sad part, someone asked him how many of his original unit made it back to the States, and he
said "Out of the battalion only 4 of us" Don't know how many was in a Marine battalion back then but
guessing a thousand.