What would you risk dying for -- and for whom?

[Backseat Driver]

2. Identified and Homeward bound! Say his name and rest now in peace. Thank you for your service.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ww2-marine-battle-tarawa-frank-athon-died-coming-home-ohio-20200909-adovumsmnfgapf22uax2ca46hu-story.html

He enlisted at 28, died at 29 and never came home.
But now Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr. is returning to Cincinnati – nearly 80 years after his death in the Pacific in WWII.

(snip) Back home, his family never forgot. His wife and parents learned of his death just before Christmas in 1943, according to Missing Marines.

In the years following his death, the family would recall their beloved “Bud,” as Athon was nicknamed. They periodically posted remembrances in the Cincinnati Enquirer – especially on his birthday and on the anniversary of his death – in the form of poems, like this one from his mother three years after she received the terrible news.

"Killed in action came the message
That came crashing into my life–
Meaning you had met the challenge,
Had made the supreme sacrifice.
You were one of the heroes as brave and true,
Who gave up your life for the red, white and blue."

Athon will be buried in Philadelphia on Nov. 21, according to the DPAA.