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I’m looking forward to it TC. My grandfather was a Marine on Okinawa. He took mortar fragments, one that was too near his spine to be removed. He didn’t talk about it much. He was a gentleman, a big man, humble and not without demons... kind and loving to his family. I miss him.

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My father was a nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator with the 865th Bomb Squadron, Army Air Corps, and was stationed on Okinawa for a time as well. He came home unscathed and did not speak much about their experiences.

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My grandfather was a Gunner Sargent. I have his papers and Purple Heart.

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