[MeekOneGOP]

Last Medal of Honor recipient from the Battle of
Guadalcanal USMC Colonel Mitchell Paige has died

Rest in peace, Colonel Paige ...

[ErnBatavia]

The weirdness of how I found about his death yesterday....On Veteran's Day, both my mother (WAC in World War II) and I had our names inscribed on our city's Veteran's Monument. Of course, at the head of the Marine Corps side was Mitchell Paige's name.

I sent some digital pics off to the extended family yesterday after checking out the monument, with a little note to do a Google search on that top Marine Corps name....for the hell of it, I did same yesterday evening, and voila. No mention in the media until this morning's paper. Kinda shocking at the time.

I'm going to keep my autographed GI Joe and copy of his book tucked away just a little tighter now. How I wish I could have one more tour of his study; quite a place.