Like many veterans, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jack C. Carroll has spent much of his life trying to push the memories of his war years to the back of his mind. Then, in October, the 85-year-old survivor of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, and Tarawa took his wife, Erma, on a sneak-preview tour of the new National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia.

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