[MacNaughton]

Wow. No wonder you knew about VDH. Powerful family story. I continue to pray that another U.S. generation will not have to go through that hell on earth.

[Verginius Rufus]

I met Victor Davis Hanson many years ago, before I knew about his cousin's death on Sugar Loaf Hill.

James H. Hallas wrote a whole book on the battle: Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. In the back he lists dozens of Marines as "sources" including my father.