(Editor's Note: Today marks the 68th anniversary landing of the 1st Marines on a lonely beach at Guadalcanal in 1942, among them a courageous 18-year-old Jerry McConnell. The epic courage of Pvt. McConnell and his Marine brothers is captured here by Navy Seal UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team. SEAL Team Two,) fellow Canada Free Press columnist Jim O'Neill). Both troops are Patriots today in the War to Save America.) "The circle of life begins at home midst family, then sometimes it ends away from home, but still in midst of family, now called friends. They were as much my brothers as if we shared the same last name. I couldn't have loved them more." Jerry McConnell -- First Marine Division, First Marine Regiment, 3rd Battalion, K Company