"What was your rank?" oral historian Aaron Elson asked Nick Paciullo, a Marine Corps veteran who fought on Iwo Jima, Saipan, Kwajalein and Roi-Namur."I was a private ... a Pfc ... a corporal ... a private ... a Pfc ... a corporal," says Paciullo, who notes that he always seemed to be in trouble. "I was with two gentlemen -- two Marines, I should say," he says, named Pudlow and McDowell. A short time later, still thinking about his buddies, he says,...
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