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Old 08-08-2023, 05:06 PM   #1
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Yeah. He was very forthcoming with sharing his stories with me. He gave me a Japanese officers sword he took from a pile of meat inside a bunker in tarawa. It has bullet holes through the blade and hilt.

He viewed every day after the war as a gift and was one of the happiest people I have ever met. You’d never know what he saw.

From the looks of it, Ukraine is seeing some serious WW2 style combat. What a waste of life.
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And he was in a book!
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Old 08-08-2023, 07:57 PM   #2
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And he was in a book!
Indeed he was. Several actually.
He saved the boxer Barney Ross’s life at Guadalcanal which got a lot of press.
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