Samar, twice

The Peripatetic Engineer has a blog post (click the post title to read it) about a nice Italian boy killing Japanese off Samar; it's poignant, but doubly so because one of Rico's favorite stories is about another warrior, this one a Marine who fought in the Philippines during the Insurrection. He got the Congressional Medal of Honor, and when he would enter a hall ever after, the cry would go up: "Stand, gentlemen! He fought at Samar!"
Things were simpler then...