Recalling Pacific invasions, Fred Long can laugh now
Last updated 11/8/2017 at 5:23pm
Now, 95 years young, World War II veteran Fred Long walks with a slight stoop and uses a cane, but his health is fine and his power of recollection is keen.
Long, who has lived in the Grand Coulee Dam area for 25 years, was born in Oroville, and moved to the Renton area when very young.
He joined the National Guard in 1940, before the war broke out, was assigned to the quartermaster corps and l...
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