This was a very touching story, thank you for posting it.
Recently read two books of US marines fighting in Peleliu…nothing “touching” about the jap flag and what the marines went through and the death toll to take the island.
The family in Utah apparently has no idea what their relative went through to survive that battle.
Reading the two books, I did not see how the two authors could relive what they went through to write those books when they were in their seventies.