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Article: WORLD WAR II VETERANS MEMORIAL: ; East Bank to honor the 'greatest generation'
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- November 30, 2008
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Sixty-seven years ago, East Bank went to war.
Like residents of many small towns across America, after the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and America declared
war on Japan and her ally Germany, East Bank's sons, fathers and
brothers joined the military. One hundred twenty-four of the town's
men would ultimately fight in the conflict.
One was Harry L. Macleery. Now living in California, Macleery
joined the U.S. Navy in 1943. He served in the Pacific, where he was
one of 14 men on a landing craft ferrying troops and supplies to
shore under fire during the invasion of Leyte in 1944.
Scary?
"You'd better believe it," said Macleery, 82. "I wouldn't want to
go through it again."
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