[forgotten man]

“We’re losing this generation at a pretty fast pace now. I saw Dick Winters died a whilee back.”

There was another World War II hero named Richard Winter who died in San Diego this week. He became a P.O.W. at Corregidor. I hate seeing these guys go.

[colorado tanker]

“It was May 6th when we surrendered, but we wasn’t until May 27th that we were taken away from Corregidor,” Mr. Winter wrote in one passage. “We spent this time living on the sand with no food amidst indescribable filth and dirt. Dysentery was killing scores of men. The name we gave it — Death Valley — was a good fit.”

And then they came home, put the war in the past, got jobs and raised families. We're gonna miss 'em.