Thanks for the welcome! I'm happy to find this place ...

here's an excerpt from the poem written on June 12th, 1943. You'll forgive me for not typing the entire poem!:

"... the flag that we have in mind at this time,
in the hearts of us all it will stay,
the emblem of freedom, and proudly it flew
on the Island of Attu in May

...our troops have assualted, and battles were won,
but Old Glory, our flag wasn't there
no one remebered to bring it with them
it was not that boys did not care ...

...a flag was presented to Company "M",
by a Japanese soldier so grand
Corporal Yashida, just one of the boys
who is fighting to save our land

... the flag of our country should always be flown
wherever soldiers will stand
and our soldiers are proud,and they shout it out loud,
it's the emblem of God's Chosen Land.

[ 27. October 2002, 07:03 PM: Message edited by: grampas girl ]

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"It won't be long now until I come home, darling."
(Donald B. Greenwood - 'grampa' - in a letter home to his wife in Oct. 1943 - he came home in Sep. 1945)