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My wife’s grandfather fought on that island. It was horrible.

Dad spent the war in the South Pacific. Americal Division. He said the Japanese soldiers were tough and crazy fearless.

Drafted in February of 1942 at 31 years of age. Dad had only gone through 8th grade in a one room schoolhouse on Fischel Creek in rural Montana.

I asked him if he’d ever heard of the Philippines before he was sent there in WWII, he said he hadn’t. Served from 1942 until his honorable discharge in 1945. Came back to a changed Montana with no job or veteran services to assist him, got a job and went on with his life, asking for no help from anyone.

Corporal in the Pacific theater, sometime during WWII…

Damn straight!