Not for nothing do bodybuilders and rappers brag and swagger about living on “Strong Island.”

My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.

Four years after, this military adventurer, who had given so much trouble, died in a mean tavern in Philadelphia, disgraced, unpitied, and forlorn.

There were only some four hundred United States marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy. Some of those men were killed in action; and others are now prisoners of war.