Midwest Chick's Place

Go over to Old NFO and read about the Face of GI Joe.  The story of Mitchell Paige gives a perspective that is humbling in scope.

The words that got a soft exclamation from me are:

At dawn, battalion executive officer Major Odell M. Conoley was first
to discover the answer to our question: How many able-bodied Marines
does it take to hold a hill against two regiments of motivated,
combat-hardened Japanese infantrymen who have never known defeat?

On a hill where the bodies were
piled like cordwood, Mitchell Paige alone sat upright behind his
30-caliber Browning, waiting to see what the dawn would bring.

One hill: one Marine.