In the eighth episode, we saw the highest peak in the life of the hero Baslong, and the beautiful encounter with the female soldier , Love at first sight, walking into the church hand in hand, lingering on the bed... Then there are the cups on the battlefield. Of course, this is also a must for all soldiers and their families to face, but when that moment comes, no one can face it. , Not to mention the newlywed Yaner!
At the end of episode 8, Baslong’s wife is wearing military uniform sitting on a rock by the sea and looking out at the sea. From her attitude, we can see that she already knows the ending of her husband.
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After seeing this scene, many people couldn't help but feel deep sympathy and compassion for this woman who was just married and widowed: Who is she? What might her life be like in the future?
It's a pity that Baslong is a big celebrity. In contrast, his wife is too unknown, but this is also a low-key lady. Good-hearted netizens abroad finally found something about this lady after unremitting searches. Biographical information.
Her name is Lena Mae Riggi. She was born in 1913 to an Italian immigrant family in Portland, Oregon. She attended business school before the outbreak of World War II. Later she joined the Marine Corps and became a sergeant cook in the Pedletton Barracks in Southern California. . She and Baslong met and fell in love. After several dates, the two married on July 10, 1944.
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this time it is pride of life, when, for the future things will not go more than What do you think about it, enjoy it
After all, good things are short and helpless. On August 11, 1944, the order to leave was passed to Pedletton. The honeymoon period was over, Baslong returned to the barracks to make final preparations, and then boarded the ship bound for the front line of Iwo Jima with the large group. On February 19, 1945, the bloody battle on Iwo Jima, as shown in the film, Baslong fell forever on Iwo Jima. According to the battle records at the time, Baslong was hit in the chest by a Japanese mortar shrapnel. He did not die immediately. He died after struggling for about 30 minutes.
When Lena learned the news of Baslong's death, it was already March 7th. This day happened to be her 32nd birthday. One can imagine what the situation was like at that time. Like the families of thousands of soldiers who died in battle, no one knew much about Lena’s life after the war. After the war, she visited Baslong’s family once. After all, the two sides had never met, but it was certain that this was once. After a terrible meeting, Lena and her in-laws stopped contacting each other. The only picture that has been circulated is that she and Baslong’s family attended the launching ceremony of a U.S. Navy destroyer named after her deceased husband in Texas in December 1945. It should be this time. NS.
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stands to reason that since they are a family, they should take care of each other. But unfortunately, the relationship between this daughter-in-law and her in-laws is quite bad. According to Lena’s niece, Vila Cora, the only visit on the east coast where the Baslong family made Lena feel terrified, “The people in Raritan (Baslong’s hometown) are a bunch of lunatics!” This is mainly Bas. Long's sister is arbitrary, dominates everything, and always wants to use her dead brother to show off. The same is true of the people around her. Lena didn't expect Baslong's family to be so selfish!
Sadly, Lena returned to the West Coast, bought a house in Lakewood, and started her own life. She never remarried. Her niece once asked Lena why she didn’t get married again. She replied: “It’s enough to have the best life once, and there is no need to be second!”
The relationship with her husband's family was like fire and water, so that the widow did not appear in the 1948 burial ceremony of her husband's remains at Arlington Cemetery. "I don't know if she was invited. Her mother-in-law wanted her to move back to Raritan, but she wouldn't listen. That's not her style," Velacola said. "She left the Marines. There is also a good job. She doesn’t like being pushed around. The Basron family makes her very sad.”
Lena was already a sergeant major before she retired . After she retired, she worked for a large electrical company. Her shares. She has a very good cooking skill and is often enthusiastic about community charity activities, and she is also very enthusiastic about publicizing national defense knowledge. People often see her at the Long Beach Veterans Care Center, the American Veterans Auxiliary Association, and she is also one of the heads of the Marine Corps Women's Association.
On June 11, 1999, Lena passed away at the age of 86. "Hey, she always looks so young and energetic, like someone in her 50s" Baslong's best man, MC veteran Clitton Walters commented on her.
Lena never mentioned to anyone around her that she was once the wife of a Medal of Honor winner. It was not until after her death that a local newspaper published a report on the matter, and people knew that this amiable grandmother had such a past.
The local government arranged a grand funeral ceremony. 5443 Marines from Long Beach participated in the whole process and fired a 21-gun salute. However, a considerable part of the Marines didn't know what the Madam Basron was all about, and they had not even heard of Basron, the Medal of Honor recipient. "The new generation of pots don't know who Baslong is," Frank Turiance, an MC Korean War veteran who attended the funeral, said startledly.
Mrs. Basron was buried in a national cemetery in RiverSide near her residence, which was managed by the Veterans Affairs Committee. The federal government asked her if she was buried with her husband in the Arlington Cemetery before she was alive, but Mrs. Basloun refused, on the grounds that she "would not trouble anyone", but the underlying reason was only her friend And relatives know. Her niece Velacola said: "My aunt told me that she didn't want to have anything to do with them. This they did not refer to the government, but to the people of her in-laws, because they treated her very badly. All Baslong’s close relatives are She received a pension of 10,000 yuan from the government, but she did not ask for the money, but let her in-laws take it away."
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