John Moon, WWII Veteran Keeping the World Safe
John Moon was a young man working at Caterpillar in Peoria, Illinois when Pearl Harbor was bombed and the U.S. entered WWII. John hated to leave his wife and son, but he decided to do his part to make the world safe, so he joined the Marines. He ended up on Iwo Jima, an island in the Pacific, and eventually was wounded there. Read this amazing story about a man, who at age 103, considered himself the luckiest man in the world.
Originally published at David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American Kids