Don Malarkey - "In Color" 

Very cool!

Donald Bullshlt

He was an extraordinary man. My condolences to you and your family.

RIP Don .i m fan of u r Uncle don ,yes he was real hero .

...yes, he and all his BOB soldiers were heros... and the ones that didn't make it back....this was said by every returning soldier. R.I.P. Mr .Malarkey.

my condolences

Hi Laurie.. Your Uncle Don is a Legend. I just wished I grew up in that era and fought along side those guys, in Easy Company. THE GREATEST GENERATION 🎯

I saw a French girl's video of her visiting the American cemetery at Normandy. She had tears in her eyes and she spoke reverently about the men who gave their lives to liberate France. She brought tears to my eyes.

Sadly we lost the war, but I will redeem us all. Guarantee if we took media clipping from today and went back in time, we'd side with the Germans and fight the Soviets. That's fucking guaranteed. Anyone who disagrees is uninformed, led down the wrong path. History is written by the victors. One sided, biased history is then taught.

+Laurie Scott its great .who is the music by ?

+Laurie Scott I just watched band of brothers and were looking up everyone of the characters that I could and it's good to see he's still going what a great life he has lived, you are very lucky to have him as your uncle, and should be proud! you can tell your related to him too same eyes and nose!

+Laurie Scott I read his memoirs of pre war, during, and partially after. What a guy, seems like someone you could just sit down and talk to!

+Laurie Scott You should be so proud. That's awesome.

Dear Ms. Scott: My name is Scott Adkins. I too am a veteran, but from a later era than your uncle. Please convey to him my deepest heartfelt thanks for what he sacrificed, suffered, and endured.

Thank you sir for your comment and service to this great country! God Bless you!!!

Patton knew exactly what he was talking about - and they wanted him silenced as soon as possible. If you read Ambrose's biography of General Eisenhower, it's hard not to think Patton was not only the best war general in the Army, by far, but had the best understanding of Russia's intentions. He was constantly being undermined by the bigger brass.

I wish we sided with Germany, Patton was right.

Hey brother, thank you for your lifetime of service and sacrifice.

Marines?

LordAvoc They all were.

Indeed.

Max madeinitaly yy

not necessarily a fair statement. Don and his pals would most likely have lived good, un-remarkable lives, if not for the war. "heroes" are not easily identifiable, until "the time comes". I would like to think, and hope that many of my generation would rise to the occasion, if absolutely needed. The guys that stormed the cockpit and brought down the last terrorist-jet on 9/11, come to mind.

Dear Mr. Russel, My paternal grandfather served as a Marine infantry officer in WWII and Korea. He fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Okinawa, Inchon, and the Chosin. Grandpa never spoke of his service or his experiences. Until I was about 12 years old, I did not even know he had fought in two wars. I found out only when I went digging for fishing tackle in the deep recesses of a spare closet and there hung his Marine Corps "alpha" uniform, festooned with ribbons that, I realized later included the following: (1) Navy Cross; (3) Silver Stars; (2) Bronze Stars with "V" device; and not one, but (5) Purple Hearts. But still, he never spoke of his wartime experience until he spoke at my brother Jack's eulogy when Jackie was killed in the Beirut bombing of 1/8's BLT HQ in October 1983. And then, he spoke sparingly. It was only after I won my own Marine officer commission, and went into battle (First Gulf War) and lost two Marines. I accompanied one's remains home. Despondent after the burial and having to hand Sgt. White's weeping mother a folded flag (feeling responsible for his death and suffering a unhealthy amount of survivor's guilt), I visited grandpa. He knew I'd been in combat and knew I'd lost Marines. I got out of the car, he ran down the driveway, hugged my neck and quietly wept. Only THEN did he go into any detail about the "bad dreams" he'd have when Jackie and I would spend our summers with him and grandma. What those men faced, suffered, and conquered in places like Tarawa and Okinawa cannot be described. I asked him why he wept. He told me that he wept for me because now, like him, I would carry the scars of war (also served in Iraq and Afghanistan) for the rest of my days. The bad dreams, self-recriminations, and survivors' guilt would follow both him and me to the grave. Of himself, he was prophetic. The night before grandpa passed, I sat in his hospital room in my dress blues and had a Marine Reserve unit offer-up their color guard. There, I sat, and the color guard stood, for grandpa's last 24 hrs or so of life. And that night, yes, even then, grandpa had a horrible dream nightmare the Chosin. And now, my own son serves with Marine infantry unit. For years, as an eager, zealous would-be warrior, my son would ask me about my own experiences. And I just couldn't recount them because to do so was to relive them. After his first combat deployment, he visited me. First words outa his mouth when he stepped outa the car were a tearful, "Dad, I'm sorry I bothered you all those years. Dad, now, I understand." Neither of us have ever spoken in detail to each other about our combat service. Now, it's just a quiet respectful understanding between warriors. I hope this long-winded account gives you some insight and context into why those of us who see the worst of combat just never speak of it. Over 60 years after grandpa went ashore at Tarawa, he still could not speak of it without his voice cracking and the tears slowly dipping down his face. Today, I simply do not and cannot speak of the more intense actions my Marines fought in places like Fallujah. It's heartening to remember their valor, but far too often, the price for their valor was their very lives. And that, is simply too much to recall.

A good looking man all his life. Loved your part in EasyCo