Posted on 05/28/2016 10:01:11 PM PDT by rey
At last, Marine private and son of Healdsburg John Saini is coming home.
Born to an Alexander Valley grape-growing family in 1923, Saini (sigh-EE-knee) was 20 when he died early on in World War IIs deadly, three-day Battle of Tarawa. He was buried on the Pacific atoll along with more than 1,000 other Marines and sailors and more than 5,000 Japanese and Korean soldiers.
Informed of his death, his shattered immigrant parents in Healdsburg, Mike and Mary Saini, awaited word of where he was interred and how they might return his earthly remains to Sonoma County for proper, Catholic burial. It never came.
Shortly after the war, the U.S. disinterred many of the Marines buried in battlefield cemeteries on Tarawa, but Sainis grave was one that couldnt be found.
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Not universally true.
In the DVD I mentioned in my previous post, a Japanese soldier who survived the sixteen inch shelling from our battle ships was found by our Marines when the shelling stopped. They loaded him on a stretcher and carried him to one of our aid stations where he was treated. He spoke at the honors ceremony and showed no signs of hatred. He was one of the very few that lived through the entire action.
Regards,
GtG
Very cool
Hadn’t heard of the museum. Hopefully I can get out your way some time.
Happy Memorial Day
Semper Fi my brother.
And yet our “worthless half-breed pResident” has the temerity to go to Hiroshima and apologize for bombing that city! President Trump will need to retrace all of Obola’s “apology sites,” and set the record straight.
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