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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: PFC Don Mates, USMC, World War II, Iwo Jima
Description: On Monday, Americans will pause for Memorial Day and honor the service and sacrifice of those gave what President Lincoln called their last full measure of devotion. And the reason we are often able to remember the fallen is because those who died had a friend who lived to tell the story.That is certainly case for Don Mates and his great friend, Jimmy Trimble, a highly promising pitcher who delayed a Major League career to serve his nation in uniform.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," Mates describes the lifelong bond he formed with other...