"Another of the good ones move on" Topic
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| Marianas Gamer | 28 Sep 2015 3:08 a.m. PST |
I just heard that my relative Jose Torres passed on today. He is one of those WWII heroes that you don't hear about much. He was a Guam Chamorro that lived in the southern village of Merizo. In the last days before the amphibious assault on Guam the Imperial Japanese Army began to carry out atrocities against the indigenous inhabitants. After two massacres in the Merizo area, a small group of men armed with only a single rifle rose up and killed the Japanese garrison there and continued to hold it for over a week. Merizo was the only village on Guam that liberated itself from the Japanese. After taking back their village a group of young men took an inside the reef canoe over the reef and paddled out to a US destroyer to pass on information to the invasion fleet. I can only imagine the pucker factor of first taking on the Japanese garrison and then taking a small canoe into those conditions out to ships that were actively shelling the island and could very well have interpreted their canoe as an attacking Japanese vessel. Although a very young man Jose Torres was involved in both the fight and the canoe voyage. They made them tough back then.
LB |
pzivh43  | 28 Sep 2015 3:56 a.m. PST |
An amazing story. RIP, sir! |
Ben Lacy  | 28 Sep 2015 5:42 a.m. PST |
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| DisasterWargamer | 28 Sep 2015 6:05 a.m. PST |
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| wminsing | 28 Sep 2015 6:33 a.m. PST |
Whoa, incredible story, and my sincere condolences. -Will |
| Patrick Sexton | 28 Sep 2015 8:45 a.m. PST |
Thank you for that story and my condolences on this loss. |
| wrgmr1 | 28 Sep 2015 9:46 a.m. PST |
Wow, quite the life! My condolences. |
| Mark 1 | 28 Sep 2015 3:28 p.m. PST |
A story to be told and re-told. A long life with service and accomplishments to be celebrated. Somehow I feel congratulations are as appropriate as condolences. -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
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