Semper Fi Jack - youngest to recieve MOH

[Herc_Dude]

Became a Marine at age 14. Actions just a few days after his 17th birthday on Iwo Jima earned him the Medal of Honor. Semper Fi Jack Lucas.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004459564_weblucasobit06.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacklyn_H._Lucas

 

[VIZKRIEG]

Talk about "grande cajones" I can't think of anyone close to this guy...

RIP

 

[jt71582]

Wow, I never knew about this guy. What an amazing man he must have been. God bless, RIP.

 

[BACONATOR]

It's stories of unbelievable human beings like this that keeps the thin fibers of hope that I still have left in humanity. RIP

 

[CWJones411]

Pretty soon there won't be any MOH recipients left, considering all the recent ones are all KIA.

RIP

 

[brownshoe]

Became a Marine at age 14. Actions just a few days after his 17th birthday on Iwo Jima earned him the Medal of Honor. Semper Fi Jack Lucas.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004459564_weblucasobit06.html

Thanks for the post. I’d never heard of this fellow, and what a set of “balls!” This guy, well, what can you say? Seems as though he’d lived the rest of his life in the same way, “Full speed ahead.” What a guy… This fellow was from a different time. Sadly, times have changed. I can’t even find a kid to mow my lawn, much less lie about his age to join the service and go to war.

Steve

 

[Mumbles]

We lose about a thousand WW2 vets a day in our country. I'm glad that I've gotten the chance to sit down and talk to a few in my life.

 

[Ave8tor]

After reading about him, is there any doubt left why these guys were dubbed "America's Greatest Generation"? It would have been cool to have him at a TBS mess night, oh the stories he could probably tell!

Great find!

 

[MasterBates]

Godspeed Sir.

There goes a real man. For the sake of America, please let there be another to take his place.