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To: Menehune56
>>a very touching story

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.

5 posted on 02/17/2023 9:20:29 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Deaf Smith
Yeah, imagine if the war went the other way.

Do you think we would have any "touching" stories about some jap family returning the Stars and Stripes to some family in flyover country?

Would we get any tear jerkers about some girl whose life was "shadowed" by jap attacks on Pearl Harbor, or in the Aleutian Islands?

8 posted on 02/18/2023 4:31:27 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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