[GATOR NAVY]

I'd like to believe the story could have been confused in the telling not necessarily in the reporting...

That's my hope too, but as is, I can't buy it.

[endthematrix]

Recollection on my part is even fuzzy. He was in the Island campaigns. He was a POW, although he probably was not in the Bataan "Death March." I do recall Bataan in the conversation, his eyes lit up and seemed if he wanted to go out and rough up some Japs right then! He saw plenty of any humans share of death.

The function I met him at was Christmas party for a car club. Most of the others had heard the war stories, I hadn't and he had my ear and I listened! History straight from the man who created it!