by Douglas Granum | Jun 21, 2022 | Books, Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
I am flying in the navigator’s seat of a B-25 Mitchel looking down at a calm turquoise South Pacific. We fly low bucketing and creaking, it’s a plane with a lot of hours, through heat waves of turbulence. We lose rivets on occasion and have bullet holes in our...
by Douglas Granum | May 23, 2022 | Books, Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
The most hurtful circumstance about sorrow is the way it invites the crowding in of memories of happier times for poignant comparison with one’s present misery, and I was miserable. I am standing, anxiously dancing really, on a clammy flak jacket in the bottom of a...
by Scott Norris | May 9, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
In the process of designing a piece such as the Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers Monument many ideas are explored through the creative process. Names & Medallions Design In the case of the Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers monument we have been working...
by Scott Norris | May 5, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
In the most recent discussions of the design for this monument, it was expressed by the Marine Raider Association that they would like to see a modern MARSOC in contemporary gear and uniform as a part of this monument. Early on the discussion circled around modern...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 4, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. All of my life I have been involved with rifles and pistols. Like most everything in my life, I taught myself. I taught myself to row and understand the sea, to hunt and finally...
by Douglas Granum | Feb 2, 2022 | Marine Raiders / Navajo Code Talkers
This article was published in The Raider Patch, Issue Q1 2020 (Part 1) and Q2 2020 (Part 2) This was written in conjunction with the Marine Raiders and Code Talkers Monument project. About four years ago a well-dressed older Two Star General came up to me at a party...
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