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From an email from my uncle:
Today’s history lesson.
A true story about 19 marines killed on an island (defending against
the Japanese). They had to retreat, so asked the islanders to please bury
them for us.
Years later, they checked and found a man who had been a teenager then
and remembered where they were buried. They sent a C130 and an honor guard
over there and found all 19 had been buried with their helmets on, their
rifles in their hands, in perfect condition. The islanders had really done a
wonderful job. As they were loading the bodies, a voice from out of nowhere
started singing “The Marine Hymn”……….gave everyone goose bumps. Turns
out, the voice was from a man who spoke no English but remembered a song the
Marines taught him when they landed. Very touching. They got all 19 and
their photos are at the end. This of course was WW2!
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