Marine's Disabled Duty
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This banner repersents "The People's" private corporation, and under Ed/Regilion.This site is dedicated to promote UNITY between America's Able and Disabled, bringing the disabled to the forefront of mainstream America. Allowing them to speak freely, and enjoy the freedoms Fought and Died for, Promote an Inter-Action & Unity for "Better AMERICA" .
I Believe;..that "God" heard my prayer while in Marine-Boot Camp, Parris Island / So.Carolina. (1942) It was a simple one;..I Thought! This disabled duty was NOT for just for the Marine Corps, but ALL the American People. (Working thru ME) For 20 + years . MY PRAYER; was only to serve WELL, while in the Marine Corps, and for Family, & the Marine Corps tradition ! After Guadalcanal, I went to Guam & then to Purita Is.- off Bougenville, and had my first experience. ( Story Below)
A Marine Lost A Sailor
By Harold F. Dangler
January 7,
After Guam, we sailed for Bouganville, and the little island of Purita, where A Co 4th Base Depot
was to set up an equipment storage depot for the troops.
Purita Island is just about 1/2 half mile off Bouganville. This place received more enemy bombs than the main island, probably because of the closeness of the Storage Depot which contained rations ammo, fuel, etc. The enemy missed so often that WE got their payload.
After just a few days there, I saw this young sailor and I asked..."Is there anything I can do for you?"
His answer was: "Yes," I jumped ship, and I want to be with you Marines, that's where the action is!
Besides, I'm sixteen & 1/2 and the Navy"s sending me home, can I stay, please!"
I remembered that at 16 and 1/2 I wanted to enlist, but my mother said very clearly, "NO!!" My Dad
talked her into it by my seventeenth birthday.
So, I told the young sailor that he would have to get permission from our C.O. After getting
"temporary permission", he became my responsibility.So,
he became one of us, and slept next to me, later becoming drunk.
We had an air raid that night with
plenty of "personal bombs." With help, I was able to get him to our shelter. After it was over, he
stared at me, and I angrily demanded of him, "What the H---are you staring at?" With a dopey
expression on his face, he said " I see an Angel on your shoulder." During the night, I felt a thud on
my chest. .I thought that it was him in a drunken stupor. But, it was a Vampire Bat with a broken
wing!
Looking right into its eyes, I knocked it off, and yelled for my buddies. We killed it with the
rifle butts, and unrolled it. It had a wing spread of about 3 ft. on each side, with gripping claws. Right
then and there, we nailed it to a board on top of our shelter.
The next morning, there was no cot, and no sailor! I checked with the troops--no sailor! I then
checked with the CO--no sailor! Though, this was a very profound experience for me, it was not so
to the others. But it is still with me today!
The next day brought another air raid, and a Direct hit on the Supply Depot. It looked like all the
fireworks I'd ever seen all rolled into one. My company got a commendation for our action that
day, putting out fires and saving lives, etc. It was awarded by Marine General Roy S. Geiger.
Harold F. Dangler
Busting Attitude Barriers thru Involvement (B.A.B.I.)
Ever since I've gotten "Hidden Rewards" & the belief of being the only Marine to serve Able and Disabled. (Extra PROUDLY) USA's Freedom is a "Birth Right" - shows People CAN work TOGETHER!!! And make a Better America. I'm only sorry I couldn't pass the Logo's out here in Seminole, FL. (Basically: Home Bound) ( Disabled Service: 1964 -2001 and Beyond??)
Painting by Col. Charles Waterhouse
"THANK YOU"
I asked for a sign, and General Walt Boomer's words during "Desert Storm" came to this Marine!! "God Bless"
(May the spirit of your Marine forefathers ride with you, and God give you the strength to
accomplish your mission.
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