Memories of Iwo Jima still haunt Colorado Springs veteran
By LESLIE JAMES | The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) (TNS) | Published: November 11, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Tribune News Service) — Even at 94, Escolastico Griego hasn’t shared all his stories from World War II battles in the Pacific.
The memories of Iwo Jima, a 1945 battle that claimed more than 6,800 American lives, are still too raw and fresh for Griego, then a 20-year-old Navy corpsman.
“I’ve tried to forget everything,†Griego said, but he remembers the bullets flying back and forth beginning his first day on the island, where he served as a “doc†to Marines.
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