Marines

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/7/2020
  

  Marines Ban Depictions of the Confederate Flag, Including on Bumper Stickers and Mugs

  "Our history as a nation, and events like the violence in Charlottesville in 2017, highlight the divisiveness the use of the Confederate battle flag has had on our society," said the Marines in a statement posted to Twitter.

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• SOURCE: Stars and Stripes
  4/23/2020
  

  Marine Commandant Defends Banning Confederate Flag As A Divisive Symbol

  “This symbol has shown it has the power to inflame feelings of division,” Gen. David Berger wrote in a letter to Marines dated Monday and included in a tweet.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-17-18
  

  Lost in Battle, Found by Amateur Sleuths: An ‘Unknown’ Marine

  Digitized records and DNA tests are allowing civilian volunteers to pitch in and help put correct names on unidentified remains in American military cemeteries.

• SOURCE: Asahi Shimbum
  8-14-13
  

  U.S. veteran wants to return war 'souvenirs' to Japanese families

  AURORA, Illinois--At the age of 92, Kenneth Udstad felt a sense of guilt for his actions of nearly 70 years ago.Now, the U.S. veteran of World War II wants to return the items he took from dead Japanese soldiers and Japanese civilian homes on the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian.Udstad served in the 4th Marine Division and was in charge of supplying ammunition and fuel for tanks. In the summer of 1944, he landed on Saipan for heavy fighting against the Imperial Japanese Army and Japanese civilians rounded up for the battle....

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  3-12-13
  

  Murray Polner: Review of Dale Maharidge’s “Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War” (Public Affairs, 2013)

  Murray Polner, a regular HNN book reviewer, wrote No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran and When Can We Come Home, about Vietnam War resisters.