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Only got so far as the pic/notes in front of the Memorial in '02.
I'll go back in a minute. After I get the damn tissues, again. lol.
1980 and 2005 I stood there.
1980 to "visit" my brother. lol. Not real sure how THAT happened. lmbo.
2005 at graduation- my mother, son, and I laid flowers on the monument, right behind you, in honor and in memory of my father, and of her brother who was at Iwo Jima.
Before my son left, my brother gave him a bit of inspiration to carry with him. He told him... that when he puked, and he surely would, remember he was puking on hallowed ground that had been puked on by his great-uncle, gramp, dad, uncle, and cousin before him. To know my brother is to love him. lol.
A very humble honor it is for me to meet you.