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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 905863, member: 6986&quot;]My father&#039;s brother was a Marine who died on Iwo Jima in 1945.&nbsp; After 65 years, my father only recently went through the letters and other effects that related to his brother.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to a story that appeared in Sunday&#039;s LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune about my father and the relationship with his brother.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_6430e11e-6aac-11df-9dc4-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_6430e11e-6aac-11df-9dc4-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story" rel="nofollow">http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_6430e11e-6aac-11df-9dc4-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the letters to my father mentioned that a $5.00 bill was enclosed.&nbsp; Since my uncle was in the Pacific, I assumed it was a Hawaii note.&nbsp; Before I could ask, my father mentioned that he remembered the note and he remembered that it said Hawaii on it.&nbsp; My father kept the note and hid it in a model airplane in his room.&nbsp; In 1947, the family moved and the model airplane was thrown away by my grandfather with the $5.00 note still in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found a decent $5.00 Hawaii note at the N.O.W. show in Iola last week that I gave to my father to replace the one he lost 60+ years ago.&nbsp; Below is a scan of a $5.00 Hawaii note.&nbsp; It is (probably) not the one my father lost (although you never know) and it is not the one I gave him, either, as I neglected to scan it before I gave it to him.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/scan0038.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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