BUSTER the Marines Shown Below, Are Among the First to Finally Come Home
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“Facts do not cease to exist, Central Coast Edition because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley Volume 4 - Issue 1 PRSRT STD http://CaliforniaRegister.com *********ECRWSSEDDM**** ECRWSS December 2016 U.S. POSTAGE PAID PISMO BEACH, CA “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...” Ratified: December 15, 1791 Residential Customer PERMIT NO. 99 Fifty Marines Lost for 72 Years were Found by BUSTER The Marines shown below, are among the first to finally come home. The same dog (BUSTER) that found our Marines also alerted multiple times behind the Flores home in Arroyo Grande, California. Marine families finally have closure, while the family of Kristin Smart languishes without answers. PVT. Frank F. Penna PFC John Saini SGT Fae V. Moore PFC James “Sam” Smith PFC John F. Prince PVT Emmett L. Kines - 24 PVT Palmer S. Haraldson PFC Elmer L. Mathies Age - 24 Age - 20 Age - 23 Age - 19 Age - 19 Age - 24 Age - 31 Age - 21 Canastota, New York Healdsburg, California Chadron, Nebraska Liberty, Mississippi Calverton, New York Grafton, West Virginia Lincoln, Nebraska Hereford, Texas PVT. Robert J. Carter PVT. Charles E. Oetjen PFC Anthony Brozyna PVT Dale R. Geddes PFC George H. Traver PFC James F. Mansfield PFC Ronald W. Vosmer PFC James B. Johnson Age - 19 Age - 18 Age - 22 Age - 21 Age - 25 Age - 19 Age - 22 Age - 19 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Blue Island, Illinois Hartford, Connecticut Grand Island, Nebraska Chatham, New York Plymouth, Massachusetts Denver, Colorado Poughkeepsie, New York Finding Marines government. We dug a bit further Defense POW/MIA Accounting lost for 72 years and heard from people on the inside Agency (DPAA) saying that after wasn’t good that one of the reasons our Marines 72 years, they may have found his enough to find on Tarawa were not discovered in brother Frank’s body on Tarawa. Kristin Smart gone 72 years was because government Frank and Fred Penna had grown for 20 years. employees responsible for finding up together working on the family the Marines were more interested farm. Fred had received a deferment By: David Smallwood in duty assignments in Vietnam. because he was a farmer. Policy They looked for any reason possible at that time required leaving one November 1943, America was to avoid the hot, mosquito infested son behind to tend to the farm. at war. The Marines had orders to island of Betio in Tarawa. DPAA requested DNA samples from PFC Ben H. Gore PFC Nicholas J. Cancilla PFC Wilbur C. Mattern seize the tiny South Pacific island The reason for avoiding Tarawa: Fred in order to positively identify Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Age - 20 Age - 18 Age - 23, from Iowa buried in Knoxville, Tennessee atoll of Tarawa. The Battle of Tarawa the hookers and nightlife in Vietnam his brother’s remains. The DNA Hopkinsville, Kentucky Altoona, Pennsylvania Arlington National Cemetery was the first American offensive in were much more exciting than on matched and arrangements were Medal of Honor Recipient the Pacific. We desperately needed Tarawa. It all makes sense. Our own made to return Frank to his home give a 21-gun salute. On September 1950’s and 1960’s, Mike and Mary SGT Fae V. Moore an forward airbase for fighter Department of Veterans Affairs town of Canastota. 17, 2016, almost 73 years after his raised their own animals, including aircraft to protect the bombers allows our aging military veterans Frank Penna’s remains were death, Frank Penna was finally laid chickens, hogs, dairy cows, rabbits, Fae Verlin Moore was born heading to Japan. The attack on to suffer, waiting in line until they placed on military transport and to rest in a proper and dignified steers, sheep and pigeons with in Chadron, Nebraska on May 16, Tarawa was one of the most brutal die. Remember the Veterans Health flown from Hawaii to Atlanta, way. At the end of the Catholic horses to plow the land. They had 1920, the youngest of 10 children and bloody of the war. Within the Administration scandal of 2014, Georgia. There, his casket was Mass celebrating Frank’s life and their own vegetable garden and born to Alonzo and Mary Moore. first three days of fighting, 6,400 where government employees were changed to a civilian air carrier en- contribution to the war effort, Fred were pretty much self-sufficient, There were six boys and four girls. would die on both sides on an even falsifying records and patients were route for New York. Fred’s daughter was brought up to the lectern by even having their own blacksmith The family farmed and ranched smaller island in the atoll called dying while on a waiting list to see Sharon Humphries, was eagerly the priest to read a poem, and say shop. Over the years, the Saini in Beaver Valley east of Chadron Betio. a doctor. If our government doesn’t awaiting the return of her son goodbye to his beloved brother. The Family grew as they farmed prunes, during the 1920s before moving to The Marines reported losing care about military members while David from Chile, and much to her last stanza of the poem said it best: walnuts and wine grapes. a place on the Pine Ridge Indian 1,009 with 2,101 wounded. Many they’re living, why should they be amazement, her son was scheduled “Oh, it’s true what they say, when The rigorous demands of Reservation in early 1931. Without more were killed than the Marine concerned about finding our dead to take the same flight back to New we arrive on Heaven’s scenes, we running a farm did not remove much fanfare, and to the surprise Corps was willing to admit to. This Marines from a war occurring seven York which was also to carry the will find the gates are guarded by the grief of losing John. Family of many, Fae Moore decided to explains why the government was in decades ago? body of his great-uncle Frank. The Frank Penna and his Marines.” members recalled wondering why join the U.S. Marine Corps in the no hurry to find any more Marines Folks, I know this is painful, but pilot announced over the intercom their grandmother never put up summer of 1941. after the battle was over. Instead, we have to start dealing with the that David Humphries was escorting PFC JOHN SAINI a Christmas tree. Mary explained He was accepted for enlistment they chose to just dump these truth. The bottom line is that we his great-uncle Frank Penna back that she had been preparing for in Rapid City, subsequently traveling brave men into a hole and cover did leave our brave Marines behind to be properly buried in his home On September 27, 1887, Mike Christmas when she received to Minneapolis for a physical them up in an attempt to forget the and people should be ashamed. town. A very close family friend, Saini (pronounced; sigh-ee-nee) the telegram about John’s death. examination and processing on carnage which occurred because Unfortunately, government Thomas Mariano, said that his was born in San Ruffino Di Lievi, Celebrating Christmas just became August 18, 1941. Three days later, of very poor strategic planning. employees rarely feel the emotion father and Frank Penna had been Genoa, Italy. In 1906, after the too hard. It reminded her of the 21-year-old Marine Corps Private The excuses given for their careless of shame. Many are only interested best friends and had joined the great San Francisco quake and pain of losing her beloved son Fae Moore was in San Diego, burial methods were: in a paycheck. When the clock Marines together. Mariano’s father fires, Mike Saini immigrated to the John Saini. She never put up a California for basic training at the A. They were in a war and in a strikes five, they race home to survived the war, but unfortunately United States and began working as Christmas tree from that day Recruit Depot. He was assigned to hurry to get the runway built, sit in front of their big-screen TV. his best friend Frank Penna did not. a garbage collector. In those days, forward. John’s sister Virginia had the 1st Recruit Battalion and then B. The stifling heat of the tropics Unfortunately, this is the result Thomas Mariano became an expert they called the refuse collectors a lifelong commitment to find her the 3rd Recruit Battalion. created a health hazard from all the when people cannot be fired for at putting out oil well fires, working “scavengers.” In 1922, Mike Saini brother’s remains, and before her After just a week in boot camp, decomposing bodies, failing to do the job they were hired for a time with the famous Red became one of the founders of the death, she gave all the research and he wrote to his sister Hazel Moore C. Just a simple oversight. to do. Adair of Texas. Thomas helped put “Scavenger Protective Association.” correspondence to John Eugene Moss in Nebraska that “the Marines Military members are always It was not until a Peace Corps out the numerous oil fires in Kuwait With his brother-in-law, John Saini (her nephew), asking him to are a lot tougher and stricter than taught that we never leave a member noticed local children ignited by Saddam Hussein’s thugs Cuneo, they purchased a ranch in keep searching. Sadly, both Virginia the Army or Navy… I don’t get to fallen comrade behind. While this playing with human skulls did a when they were allowed to return the Dry Creek Valley in Healdsburg, and Eugene died not knowing their leave this post for seven weeks applies to the military, the rule non-profit organization called to Iraq.