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James Lewis Day

1925–1998

Major General (retired; wartime squad leader as enlisted Marine at Okinawa)

WWII: squad leader, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division (Sugar Loaf Hill, Okinawa, May 1945); later Korea and Vietnam combat service; retired as major general (1986)

Documented decorations

James Lewis Day’s six Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, and three Silver Stars are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his career. The same VA account places those decorations beside the Medal of Honor presented at the White House on January 20, 1998, for Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa in May 1945. This decorations page records Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal, and Silver Star from that VA list. It will not invent a device count beyond what the VA paragraph states, and it will not place a Medal of Honor chip on this awards row.

At Sugar Loaf, Day held a foxhole through multi-day assaults while wounded, covering his sector until relief came. That delayed Medal of Honor is the public valor record. The Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, and Silver Stars are the published career decoration names on the VA profile. They are not the same sentence.

He is not yet on a war-roll essay. Combat service in three wars and Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery burial are public fact. They are not printed here as extra medals.

This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.

A publisher register — not a verification

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Claiming a decoration that was not awarded is stolen valor. It is a disrespect to those who earned the medal and, in some cases, a federal crime. This register will not invent an award to fill a page.

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