The Mad Marine of Matareva: A Cautionary Tale

The Mad Marine of Matareva:

A Cautionary Tale: "Since the Obama Administration and Congress keep pressuring the US military to “queer-up,” a story from James Michener’s autobiographical “The World Is My Home,” may be in order. Link

The late James Michener spent two tours (four years) of duty as a US Naval officer in the Pacific theater during WW II. It was his experiences, and the stories he heard during that period, that formed the basis for his book “Tales of the South Pacific”—later turned into the musical play, and movie, “South Pacific.”

During his second tour he was assigned the task of traveling around the Pacific and compiling information for the official US Naval history of the war in that region. He visited forty-nine different islands during his travels, but it is one island, and what occurred there, that concerns us.

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