| If you enjoy history Cindy, io or anyone else, a VERY good read is Guadalcanal by Richard Frank. I may have the first name wrong, but I know his last name is Frank. Both Vandegrift and R.Adm. Norman Scott certainly deserved the Medals of Honor they recieved. Scott's was awarded posthumously.
The book also goes into quite some detail, not only of the suffering and heroism of US Marine, Navy and Army personnel, but is equally eloquent on the suffering and heroism of the Japanese soldiers and sailors, the Australian Coast Watchers and the native Scouts.
One big regret that I have is that Dad and Mother weren't able to go the 50th anniversary of the Guadalcanal campaign. In the summer of 1992 they had plans to fly to Australia and take a special cruise to the Solomons with other veterans of that campaign, American, Australian and Japanese, but Mother was too ill to go. Dad had no particualr desire to ever see Guadalcanal or the Solomons ever again, but he wanted to show Mother where he was at, while she was waiting for him to come home. Mother quite naturally wanted to see it too.
Ok enough, before we derail this into a military history thread.
Sooz
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