Gavin Newsom
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He enlisted in WWII on 25 Sep 1940 as a single man for service in the Philippines. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for about three years, surviving the "... infamous Bataan death march". | He enlisted in WWII on 25 Sep 1940 as a single man for service in the Philippines. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for about three years, surviving the "... infamous Bataan death march". | ||
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| + | About 1946, probably in California, he married Jean Addis, and in Dec of that year, they had twin daughters Tessa Menzies and Anne Menzies. | ||
"Returning to San Francisco after the war, he worked as assistant curator at Strybing Arboretum, where he was considered a leading authority on California wildflowers. Apparently unable to shake the horrors of the death march, he committed suicide — in front of Tessa and her sister." | "Returning to San Francisco after the war, he worked as assistant curator at Strybing Arboretum, where he was considered a leading authority on California wildflowers. Apparently unable to shake the horrors of the death march, he committed suicide — in front of Tessa and her sister." | ||
