Copyright Patriot Ledger Mar 03, 1997
From the Patriot Ledger, 1997: Maurice “Bucky” Harrington of Braintree remembers the battle for the island of Okinawa in 1945 during World War II.
The Marine Corps veteran’s most vivid memory was of Okinawan women and children leaping off cliffs to their death out of fear of the Americans. “The Japanese had told the Okinawans that when we invaded the island we would kill all the women and children”……
