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While on a 95' patrol boat in the USCG I went to Tinian many times. Fortunate to see all of the most talked about places as well as secluded places of solitude with many WW2 relics still lying there, undisturbed.

Your father was a great man and I appreciate his sacrifice dearly.

10 posted on 08/31/2023 8:48:59 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)

Your father was a great man and I appreciate his sacrifice dearly.

Very kind of you to say. He was proud to have been in the Navy, but never felt he deserved recognition.

He never had to fight directly. Landed on Tinian about a week after it was secured. Then followed MacArthur to Luzon and Samar. He always said "I followed the action around the pacific, camped on a tropical beach in Samar, and got a free world tour as a 19 year-old, but other guys did the fighting and dying and were not so lucky."