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Veterans

grasswire

(50,130 posts) Mon May 25, 2015, 10:56 PM May 2015

went to visit my uncle's grave today.

He was a P.O.W. of the Japanese from the fall of Corregidor to the liberation. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, silver star, etc. And on his grave stone says not just POW, but "PH". We cannot figure out what "PH" is. Does anyone know? Thanks in advance.