On this day, I always take a few moments to remember a young man I never met.
He was born in the Georgetown section of Wilkes-Barre, PA. He died while establishing a beachhead on an island in the South Pacific during WWII. He is buried in Arlington.
He was a member of the famed First Marine Division-Reinforced.
He was my mother's older brother Raymond, and he died at the age of 21.
He served with honor.
There are those who feel men and women like him are "suckers and losers".
Hopefully, sooner vs. later, their day of reckoning will come.
We have not forgotten
Semper Fidelis, Uncle Ray.
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