This quiet Vet passed in July '15. He was 98. In '43 he sailed west to Pearl, then onward through the Pacific: Tinian, Saipan, Iwo. He was a U.S. Army sharpshooter, an MP guarding Japanese prisoners of war. In '45, weapons at rest, he traveled back east by train. He worked as a plasterer at the White … Continue reading The Veteran