re: Battle of Peleliu

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My grandfather fought the Japs at Peleliu.

I was with him and my grandmother at the World's Fair in 1984. When we got to the area where all the different countries had their exhibits, he looked up at the Jap flag, turned to grandma and said "Let's go" and we left.

He couldn't believe they allowed them to fly that thing over American soil. To the day he died, he couldn't stand the sight of those people.

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I knew a lot of old guys who fought the Japanes and felt that way. It was a far more savage war than even what was going on in Europe.

I had a distant cousin who was severely wounded in the hills of Peleliu. He survived to become the police chief of Baker.