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#OTD in 1923 – Noel Lemass, Anti-Treaty IRA officer in Dublin, brother of Seán Lemass is abducted by Free State plainclothesmen and killed.

‘The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass’ by Harry Clifton The life of the country Hardened against you Like frost, and a new front Opened—brother against brother, Choice against choice, Disputing the high ground. Your eyes, Blindfolded, beheld the ideal State As the real one steadied itself To annihilate you. How to survive it, the force of exclusion, The freezing out of the soul At the site of its…

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Life Magazine October 27, 1967 – Marine at Con Thien

Life Magazine Cover : Marine inside the cone of fire at Con Thien.

David Douglas Duncan photographs the Marines in action 18 pages of amazing military photography, includes Kenneth Birdsong, Ninth Marines, Third battalion, Dennis McLean, Bill Dancy, Harry Hutchinson, Charles Tisby, Toby Hooten.

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2nd Cavary Regiment by The U.S. Army Via Flickr: Spc. Matthew Williams,a cavalry scout assigned to 2nd Cavalry Regiment fires a Stinger missile using Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADs) during Artemis Strike, a live fire exercise at the NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) off the coast of Crete, Greece Nov. 6, 2017. (Photos by Sgt. 1st Class Jason Epperson, 10th AAMDC PAO)

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Many that live deserve death. Many that die deserve life.

SGT Joshua P. Rodgers and SGT Cameron H Thomas, both from 3/75, were KIA in Nangahar province, Afghanistan on April 27, 2017, during combat operations.

The 75th took a devastating hit with the loss of two great Rangers, but their sacrifice was not in vein. Around 20+ EKIA during the TIC and around 50 EKIA via airstrikes after exfil.

Rest easy. Rangers Lead The Way.

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Two Army Rangers Killed in Nangarhar Province

Two Army Rangers Killed in Nangarhar Province

Two more Army Rangers were killed and one wounded during a raid to target an ISIS-K leader on Wednesday in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province. It’s the same province where Staff Sergeant Mark De Alencar was killed earlier in the month. Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Ill., and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio were attached to the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment out of…

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#OTD in 1923 – Noel Lemass, Anti-Treaty IRA officer in Dublin, brother of Seán Lemass is abducted by Free State plainclothesmen and killed.

#OTD in 1923 – Noel Lemass, Anti-Treaty IRA officer in Dublin, brother of Seán Lemass is abducted by Free State plainclothesmen and killed.

‘The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass’ by Harry Clifton The life of the country Hardened against you Like frost, and a new front Opened—brother against brother, Choice against choice, Disputing the high ground. Your eyes, Blindfolded, beheld the ideal State As the real one steadied itself To annihilate you. How to survive it, the force of exclusion, The freezing out of the soul At the site of its…

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