The Storm on Our Shoresby Mark Obmascik | |
| Category: |
"World History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 228 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Date Added: | 09/24/2023 |
| Date Read: | 10/02/2024 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II Paul Tatsuguchi was a Japanese Seventh-Day Adventist. He moved to the U.S. and trained to be a surgeon. He returned to Japan for a family crisis and was drafted into the Japanese Army at the beginning of WWII. He was sent, as a doctor, with the force that invaded Attu and was there when the American Army took the island back. Dick Laird came from a coal-mining family and struggled to find direction in life until he joined the Army. He was sent to Attu. On the day before Japan's final defeat, the remaining troops staged a suicide attack. Laird found himself facing eight enemy troops and killed them with a grenade. One of them was Paul, who had written a diary about his final days. Laird found it and shared it, and it became famous. Years later, still dealing with guilt, Laird looked up Paul's daughter Laura and told him who he was. They met and talked, and Laura wrote him an amazing letter, absolving him of blame and thanking him for finding her. They became friends and met often until Laird's death. |
| My Rating: | 8 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2024-10-02 14:02:33
