A LOOK AT
HEROES
Bob Mason
Originally
published in Coastal Senior
(July 2008)
On a hot and steely south
Pacific day 64 years ago
18-year old Ensign John
Mason earned a Navy Cross
doing some extraordinary
things in the cockpit of a
Navy Grumman Avenger. To be
sure, a hero.
But the thing I loved about
my Uncle Jack was that he
was one of the gentlest,
most self-effacing men I’ve
known. The only time I ever
pressed him on the
particulars of that Navy
Cross he chuckled and said,
“What I REALLY deserved was
a medal for raising five
good kids!”
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