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To: WakeUpAndVote

John Finn will be 100 this July. Last MOH survivor from
Pearl Harbor - stood for 2 hours fully exposed on the taxiway at Kanahoe Air station firing 30 and 50 MG. Was
wounded 24 times by bullets and shrapnel


20 posted on 03/25/2009 3:56:45 PM PDT by njslim
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To: njslim
John Finn will be 100 this July. Last MOH survivor from Pearl Harbor

If I'm correct, he resides in the "high desert" not too awful far from here. I knew Mitchell Paige (MOH, Guadalcanal) and he jokingly referred to our area as "The Valley of Heroes" - at the time, there were four or five surviving MOH recipients in the vicinity.

30 posted on 03/26/2009 5:45:38 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Here's hoping the Kennedy family trust is in deep....with Madoff)
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