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SSgt Dan Montague
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I had the honor to walk the battle grounds with my fellow Marines in "96. The king of the island told us stories of the occupation. He was a young boy who was captured and sent away to another island to work for the Japanese.
A touching story I wish I witnessed. Read the attached story of Capt Pope first then read the rest of what I wrote.
https://pacificwrecks.com/provinces/palau_peleliu_hill_100.html


Sometime in the 80's or 90's there was a tour for the Marine vets of the island and the king was with them. As the tram passed by hill 100, an elderly man yelled out for the tram to stop. He climbed out and started to run up the hill. As he ran up the steep hill he was picking up rocks and naming them after the men he lost. His son quickly chased the old man and stopped him. The man sat crying holding the rocks as if they were his men dying in his arms again. This part kinda contradicts the kings story against what I posted, but the king said at that point, hill 100 would forever be known as Pope Hill.
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Thanks for that history. I read "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" some years back. That is one of the best personal war memoirs ever written in my opinion.
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SPC Douglas Bolton
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Lives were lost to conquer the enemy.
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GySgt Thomas Vick
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One hell of a battle, thanks for the history Sgt. Reynolds.
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