never focused on it and it was a request for his military discharge papers that it was written from melbourne florida after he moved to massachusetts and had recent address so i started searching obituaries in melbourne fflorida of george coburn . and i couldn't find one. so working with another dean law that will help me a lot, by 9:00 the next morning we were on the phone with george and when we called him, i said george, this is martha mccallum. i'm harry graves grandniece and there was just a long silence. he said to me martha, i think about harry every heday. he said he was my best friend . and he started to cry on the phone. his wife got upset in the background. she has a great boston accent and she said josh, don't talk about it anymore. she said he has to go and i felt terrible that maybe we had upset him but we reconnected a couple days later and he was one of the most wonderful men i've ever met. he was just like so many of these men, he said i often thought terry would have lived a better life than i did. and it's just not true and george has lived an amazing life . he has a beauti

it was a request for his discharge papers written from melbourne florida and it had a more recent address for him that i had ever seen before so i started searching to see if i could find it because i knew that he was in his 90s and i couldn't find one. ndso working with another friend of mine who was a great researcher and helped me a lot i said this is martha. i am harry graves grandniece and there was a long silence and he said i think about harry every day. he said he was my best friend and he started to cry on the phone and his wife got upset. don't talk about it anymore. and then i felt terrible. but we reconnected a couple days later.e he said i thought he would have lived a better life than i did. i think when they watch this clip at the end you will meet him for self and see that he is a really special man. my father fought in the pacificr as a well. that trip wasn't easy to put together or pull off. tell us about going there for those of us that had a family that s served. what was going there like? >> you have to get a visa because i was working there to do research to go to to

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