Posted on 08/16/2017 8:02:30 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The remains of a U.S. Marine will be returned home to California’s Central Coast nearly 74 years after he was killed in a bloody World War II battle in the Pacific.
The remains of Pfc. George B. Murray will be flown from Hawaii to Los Angeles on Wednesday and buried Friday with honors in Arroyo Grande (San Luis Obispo County) near his hometown of Oceano, where a “Welcome Home” sign is already standing outside an old railroad depot that is now a community center and local history museum.
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The Marine is returning home to a country that has changed dramatically from the one he left. Thank you for your sacrifice I only wish that the majority of Americans would care to honor it.
Will Pelosi and the Democrats protest his return?
Bless him, and so sad how the country he gave his life for has turned into a socialist crap home
....Will Pelosi and the Democrats protest his return...
No. They will register this man who loved his country more than life as a voter.
Welcome home Marine. Your long voyage is over, rest in peace and my God bless you.
Makes me think of the final scene of “Saving Pvt Ryan”.
Murray, whose casket will be escorted by motorcyclists of the Patriot Guard Riders
Trump should recognize them as a group that represents American values not those dirt bags raising hell back in Virginia. This is what we are about and don’t let the media tell you otherwise.
“The Marine Corps of that era was segregated, homophobic and engaged in a racist war against people of color outside our own borders.
This oppressor died in a massacre where only one Japanese officer and sixteen enlisted out of over 3600 on the island were able to surrender, the rest were ruthlessly killed. About a thousand Korean undocumented volunteer workers were killed by this US invasion.
We must make a stand against unwarranted glorification of a war that saw so much injustice done to Japanese Americans and other minorities.
The monuments to Confederate soldiers, who were, by law, also US veterans, had to come down, and recognition of veterans of the predominately white, segregated US armed forces of WWII is too painful for the descendants of the victims of this hateful bigotry to endure...”
Coming to a editorial column in the NY Times or Washington Post soon.
It IS San Fransissycko! Will they spit on the remains before giving then to the family?
It makes me wonder recently...did the right side win WW2?
What a travesty that such a thought can even be entertained.
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