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To: Zakeet
My brother emailed me from Taiwan yesterday telling me of a 6.5 quake there...now New Zealand....

the Pacific rim is rockin’.

Dad was stationed in NZ while waiting for his Marine battalion to hit the beaches of Guadalcanal. He always talked about retiring to NZ but never did make it back there......

29 posted on 07/15/2009 3:56:35 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

Thank your Dad for us...

If it wasnt for the presense of the Amierican soldiers and Marines, NZ would have been taken over by the Japanese...


33 posted on 07/15/2009 4:01:54 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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