70 Years Later

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Here’s one of the Memorial Day stories that will challenge and perhaps slay your cynicism. A soldier who was killed by a Japanese sniper in the Pacific War had kept a diary focused in no small part on his High School sweetheart who he asked as his “last life request” to get the diary if he was killed. That didn’t happen until 70 years later when she finally saw the diary in a museum. Read.

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