1.0America in Uniformhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/americainuniformgoquinhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/americainuniform/author/goquinScout Edwin Bearss - America in Uniformrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="kCTqovFap1"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/americainuniform/2012/03/scout-edwin-bearss.html">Scout Edwin Bearss</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/americainuniform/2012/03/scout-edwin-bearss.html/embed#?secret=kCTqovFap1" width="600" height="338" title="“Scout Edwin Bearss” — America in Uniform" data-secret="kCTqovFap1" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Military Heroes – U. S. Marine Corps Edwin Bearss Scout USMC, served 1942-1946. Bearss tells a gripping and detailed account of what it was like to get shot multiple times during the Battle of Cape Gloucester in WWII. This segment opens with Bearss (a noted Civil War historian) powerfully exclaiming, “When he hit me, it…http://blog.beliefnet.com/americainuniform/files/2012/03/bearss.jpg