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FrankRep
12-07-2010, 10:56 PM
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John William Finn



John Finn, Medal of Honor recipient for heroism at Pearl Harbor, who died this year at the age of 100, was a life member of The John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/). by William F. Jasper

John Finn: Last of Pearl Harbor's Medal of Honor Heroes (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/american/5430-john-finn-last-of-pearls-medal-of-honor-heroes)


William F. Jasper | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
07 December 2010


John William Finn was an amazing man. He passed away earlier this year just shy of 101 years of age. He was a military hero admired by the tens of thousands of service men and women who met him over the years, as well as the many thousands of people who never had the opportunity to meet him, but who had heard of, or read, his story. He was also a much-beloved husband, father, foster father, uncle, and neighbor. Alice, his devoted wife of nearly 60 years, died in 1998. He continued to live the simple rural life in the rustic home on their Pine Valley ranch near the California-Mexico border east of San Diego.

John Finn was the last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor awarded for heroism during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Full Story:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/american/5430-john-finn-last-of-pearls-medal-of-honor-heroes



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Aratus
12-08-2010, 09:20 AM
the news media in my area did not as intensively
cover the 69 year mark of the pearl harbor attack...