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https://marylandreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Okinawa-marine-scans-Naha-resized-771x486.jpg771486In 1995, these old men have returned to the site of the final battle, where many lost their youth, their innocence, their buddies. Little they saw of Okinawa today is what they have seen these past 50 years in their vivid, often painful memories of that bloodiest battle in the Pacific during World War II. For my father and for the other infantry veterans who returned to Okinawa in late June, 1995, to commemorate the battle's 50th anniversary, there is scant evidence of the scale of tragedy that was here.