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#9782900 04/18/15
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70 years ago he was killed by Japanese machine gun fire.

RIP

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I just walked over to my disorganized bookshelf, and laid my hand on my family copy / first edition of his works.

A rock star he wasn't,

empathy was his stock in trade.

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At the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific a few years ago.

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