Okinawa, May 7, 1945. The man kneeling is Marine Colonel Francis Fenton. The flag serves as a shroud for Marine Private First Class Mike Fenton, Colonel Fenton's son. Father and son served in the same regiment. Pfc Fenton was killed beating back a Japanese counterattack. After praying over his son, Colonel Fenton rose, looked at the bodies of other dead Marines and remarked, ‘Those poor souls. They didn’t have their fathers here’.
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