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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:19 am

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Survivor gives last speech in Okinawa

Moritoshi Oshiro still bears the scars from the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. He walks with a limp and cannot see out of one eye, the result of beatings he endured despite his father’s now-famous efforts to protect the then 12-year-old boy.

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