Today I visited the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. It is here that Clarence Brodie Keith, formerly of Greenwich, Connecticut, is interred.
He was my late-father Herbert Mead's best friend.
Both were in the Battle of Okinawa. My father survived; Clarence Keith did not.
Keith was killed on May 14, 1945. I wrote a piece about him for my Greenwich Time column 'Looking Back' in the late 1990s. As soon as I found the column I'll feature it here.
