Larry Taylor Research Paper

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Larry Taylor, my grandfather, my hero. You can't ever have a serious conversation or even take him serious, he is always cracking a joke, or making you laugh. He is a man that has the biggest heart and if you met him you would be flabbergasted to her that he is a veteran of World War Two, and that he has been shot in the face and arm. If you just met him you couldn't tell that he has been shot 2 two times. When he was shot, he got sent to an emergency hospital in Japan for over 3 months. My family was so scared he wasn't going to make it, but obviously he did or my mom would not have been born and I would be here. A few years after he got back from the war , my grandmother Colleen Taylor and him got a divorce, I don't really know why,

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