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A HERETIC I AM

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3. My dad was just a couple years younger than yours.
Sat May 23, 2026, 05:55 PM
Yesterday

Born December 1925. He enlisted in late 1942 a couple weeks after his 17th birthday and served as a Navy Corpsman on a Hospital Ship in the Pacific and then off the coast of Ireland in June of '44. He was recalled to service by the Marine Corp as a Field Medic in Korea.

He died in 2000, about 4 months shy of his 75th birthday.

We most certainly will see the day when the last one passes, and it will be sooner than we all might like.

My your father, all his comrades, my father and all his shipmates and every other young man who fought to crush the same type of fascism we are seeing rise again, Rest in Peace.

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