Frank Jackson Matthews knows the Battle of Iwo Jima well-he fought in it-a skinny kid from South Carolina who was the only member of his forty-man platoon to leave the island alive.
"You Don't Know Jack "is more than a tale of a marine's service in an epic battle where so many perished-it's the tale of a young man who learned to play piano to accompany his minister father's revivals in the Deep South of the 1930's and wanted more than anything to be a university music professor-only to have his dream denied.
Matthews served the Marine Corps through the end of World War II. He studied...
Frank Jackson Matthews knows the Battle of Iwo Jima well-he fought in it-a skinny kid from South Carolina who was the only member of his forty-man ...
