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Man who rescued JFK finally honoured

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:14 pm
by Elroy13
An elderly Solomon Islander who changed world history 64 years ago has this week finally been honoured.

This is a pretty cool story!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4185473a12.html

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:29 am
by tom d. friedman
long over due honor. a little irony..... kennedy was a pretty high profile guy for a navy liuey during the war. general macarthur wanted charges brought up on jfk for dereliction of duty after the story came out.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:46 pm
by west-front
Great to see the crew of the USS Pelleliu donated $1,500 for his new home