Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "A Really Really Old Man" video.

My great Uncle Jerry was with General MacArthur to return to the Philippines to liberate it (he found a photo of them storming the beach in a book, there’s no mistaking it was him!) Unfortunately he was badly wounded and caught behind Japanese lines and he was almost killed (they didn’t take wounded POWs), but they thought he was already dead. He was extracted when the Americans pushed into his position. He got a Purple Heart and an honorable discharge. He didn’t talk much about what happened, and before he passed he had a bit of a mental decline (he once left his car running in the garage all night until it ran out of gas… thankfully the garage was separate from the house.) So most of what we learned came at his funeral when his son revealed that book and his military papers.
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