Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Untitled Aesthetic

  {Hope . Life . Change . Anger . Hero . Struggle . Unknown . Fear . Love . Dark, murky battlegrounds .  Flashing black and white pictures . Haunting silence . Grace . Forgiveness . Brothers . Home}


American ships landing troops and supplies on a beach on Okinawa, Japan, 13 April 1945.


This was the land he fought for. This was freedom. This is what was at stake.


Battleship Fires on Japanese Suicide Plane off Okinawa Pacific


Even in the fight for justice, so many who deserved to see the end would die, their names forgotten.


Marines Clear Japanese Cave with Flamethrower on Okinawa


"God is a God of second chances. And I have a feeling that your story and your brother’s story -- it isn’t over."


Marines and LVT on the beach of Iheya Jima Off Okinawa 16 July 45


He couldn’t even help his relationship with his own brother. What made him think he could do any good helping Jeremy when he couldn't even help himself?


US Infantrymen Move Inland from Okinawa Beachhead


The air around him was thick with smoke, making the entire world look a colorless, ashen grey. The rain had stopped for now, but the mud clung to everything. Sometimes Jess wondered if even nature was on the side of the Japanese.


7th Infantry Division soldiers of the US 10th Army swarm into Yonabaru on the coast of Okinawa


The rain and thunder overhead drowned out his sobs as he sat there. His knees drawn up to his chest and his head between them, more alone than he’d ever been before. 



Marines pour onto the beaches of Okinawa.


 God hadn’t taken everything. God was working, even in the hurt and the pain.

 


<—Coming November 11th —>


Another WWII series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks is on the way

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