Daily Mail
More than six decades after being freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, a Utah veteran was compelled to relive the horrors and triumphs of his World War II experience this month when he received a mysterious package containing seven military medals.
The medals, which included the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star, have become a source of pride for retired Army Capt. Tom Harrison, 93, of Salt Lake City.
They arrived in a box with nothing more than a packing slip from a logistics center in Philadelphia on November 4, which happened to be his 65th wedding anniversary.
But they have also refreshed painful memories of the Bataan Death March, POW camps and the comrades he lost during the war or in the years since.
Harrison can talk at length about his time as a soldier in the Philippines, the Associated Press reports.
But he talks about it much like he talks about golf, focusing on small details - be it the flight of a well-hit tee shot or the day he met Gen. Douglass MacArthur - and the people that surrounded him. He doesn't dwell on his own valor.
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