This is Jocco Podcast number 127 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

EOGMA is to me, hallowed, blessed, spiritual, sacred, pure ground.

If the spirits of the dead could speak, what would they be saying to me?

Count off Marines and sailors, you of the vanquished dead. When your number reaches 7,000, we will know that you are present and accounted for in this your eternal duty station.

Serve well. Your ranks are growing each passing day as some of us, your mates in war, are coming to join you.

Those endless hours of terrifying nights, the carnage, devastation and pain turned hope into despair.

The remnants of formerly dynamic human bodies that carried hearts filled with dreams of peace, home and loved ones.

After the rush of battle, my eyes became heavy with tears. My body trembled with rage as I looked upon the broken bodies, the searing invasion of human flesh.

After mouth of war, an elemental suffocating fear threw and threw my very soul.

The intensely surging immediacy of the action was aggravated, no place to hide.

There was not only an incompatibility between the Marines and the defending Japs, but the very nature of this morbid little island.

The sounds of battle, which were intensified by the human voice with all its emotions, are absent today.

The moral revulsion that took place here so many years ago has been forgotten, except by those who fought here and survived, and those who lost loved ones.

And that is an excerpt from a book called Hell Yes I Do It Again, written by a man, actually written by a Marine named T. Fred Harvey, who fought in World War II in the Pacific Feet Theatre.

Including in the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was severely wounded for a second time.

But he survived the war, and has lived an amazing life, and it is an incredible honor to have this hero here with us to share some of the lessons that he learned.

Mr. Harvey, welcome to the show.

I'm glad to be here.

I've heard a lot about this show, and I'm really pleased that you've invited me to come here and speak to you.

Well, maybe you can just keep coming back, because we'll just sit and listen to you. We got no problem with that, sir.

So, I guess we always try and go back to the beginning a little bit, and learn a little bit about you, and I know you're growing up, and your book has a bunch of incredible anecdotal stories about what it was like growing up in Texas during the Depression.

So, you know, I was talking to you earlier, and I said people don't know what the Depression was really like, and you described it in one word.

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