A 98-year-old World War Two veteran realised his lifelong dream at a Cork pub after relishing in the moment that he got to sing his favourite ballad.
Corporal Don Graves, a retired US Marine and a survivor of the Battle of Iwo Jima during the Second World War, enlisted in the corps at just 17 years old and as little as two years later landed on Japanese beaches entrenched in battle, Cork Beo reported.
Speaking on the Last Letters podcast, a show that asks guests what they would write tomorrow if it was their last day on Earth, Don revealed that his dream was to visit his grandmother’s homeland of Cork.
