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Guadalcanal

How can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods.


Thomas Macaulay

Photo of WWII Bloody Ridge, Guadalcanal, click for larger photograph

American Barbed Wire
Bloody Ridge / Guadalcanal / Emplaced / 1942
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