Waterloo Iwo Jima Marine gets final ‘Oorah!’

By: Patrick Kinney

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: May 24, 2026

Words: 1,003

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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WATERLOO — David Greene almost didn’t live to see his 20th birthday, let alone his 101st.

He died April 17. It could have happened 81 years earlier.

A artillery shell blast buried him and a fellow Marine buddy alive on Feb. 19, 1945 in the black volcanic sand of a little Pacific island named Iwo Jima.

It was a good thing Greene had his helmet strapped around his chin.

Instead of flying off his …

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