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I’ve posted this photo once before; it’s my Grandpa Matt

(or as they say in the American South where he grew up: “Massie”).

My grandpa was a Marine in World War Two.

Deployed to the Pacific Theatre, he landed on Tinian, Saipan, and Iwo Jima.

He was the recipient of three Purple Hearts and a variety of other honors. 

The two things I know about my grandpa while he was in the service are also the two things I know to be true of him during his childhood (raising cotton in Arkansas) and during his post-war adult life (raising my father and uncle):

He believed absolutely in working as hard as you can,

and in never giving up.

He passed away on the first of February of this year, at the age of 88.