The death of Victor Hanson

National Review Online has posted the second of Victor Davis Hanson’s four installments excerpted from the introduction to Hanson’s latest book. In this installment he succeeds in locating witnesses to the death of his namesake while serving with the men of the 29th Marines in brutal combat on Okinawa in the closing days of World War II: “Ghosts and survivors.”

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