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What she found brought tears almost 70...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHEADLINE: WW2 Marine's diary: A brief look at a brief life\u003cbr/\u003eCAPTION: Laura Mae Davis Burlingame went to the National World War II Museum looking for a display commemorating her high-school sweetheart. What she found brought tears almost 70 years after 22-year-old Marine Cpl. Thomas \"Cotton\" Jones died. (May 27)\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - New Orleans May 24, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium shot of WWII Museum exterior\u003cbr/\u003e2. Closeup of diary cover, first pages\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Rivet, Curator \u003cbr/\u003e\"what it is, is it is a diary of a Marine named Thomas Jones. His nickname was Cotton, and it was given to him by his girlfriend Laura Mae Davis. What we have in it is basically just a young Marine, just like everybody else who went off to war, keeping his memories and we have lots of entries speaking about Laura Mae and how much he likes her and how he wishes he had married her.\" \u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of photo of Laura Mae Davis\u003cbr/\u003e5. Closeup of photo of Laura Mae Davis\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of exhibit of Cpl. Thomas Jones\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - Mooresville, Indiana May, 23, 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend  \u003cbr/\u003e\" I had no idea there was a diary in existence. So when I looked down at this display, the first paragraph said if this diary gets lost of misplaced, whoever finds it please send it to Laura Mae Davis, Winslow, Indiana.\u003cbr/\u003e7. Medium of Burlingame reading an excerpt from the copied diary...\"today I happened to get a letter from Laura Mae and she says she loves me, yippie!\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend    \u003cbr/\u003e\"I was really shocked that the diary was there, I gave it to him before he left to go into the Marines and it just said that if something should happen to him that I should get it but I didn't know it existed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium shot of pictures from copied diary\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend    \u003cbr/\u003e\"we graduated in the same graduating class. He was a basketball player and I was a cheerleader so it was just a small community that we lived in. That's Winslow, Indiana.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - New Orleans May 24, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of Peleliu display\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of picture of WWII soldiers\u003cbr/\u003e13. (English) Eric Rivet, Curator \u003cbr/\u003e\"unfortunately Cotton Jones was killed on Peleliu, we invaded Peleliu in September 15th of 1944, and he was killed on the 17th.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - Mooresville, Indiana May, 23, 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e14. Tight shot of Marine's obit from local paper\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend  \u003cbr/\u003e\"well that was an upsetting day, it was like losing a good friend or a parent or something. It hit me. I was sad naturally. I cried. I hated it. I hated it for his family, and for his friends. And for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - New Orleans May 24, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e16. Tight shot of Cpl. Jones from his WWII display\u003cbr/\u003e17. Tight shot of Cpl. Jones' purple heart \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wider shot of purple heart, and other documents\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - New Orleans May 24, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium shot of WWII Museum exterior\u003cbr/\u003e2. Closeup of diary cover, first pages\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Rivet, Curator \u003cbr/\u003e\"what it is, is it is a diary of a Marine named Thomas Jones. His nickname was Cotton, and it was given to him by his girlfriend Laura Mae Davis. What we have in it is basically just a young Marine, just like everybody else who went off to war, keeping his memories and we have lots of entries speaking about Laura Mae and how much he likes her and how he wishes he had married her.\" \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide shot of exhibit of Cpl. Thomas Jones played over SOT\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium shot of photo of Laura Mae Davis\u003cbr/\u003e6. Closeup of photo of Laura Mae Davis\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - Mooresville, Indiana May, 23, 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend  \u003cbr/\u003e\" I was really shocked that the diary was there, I gave it to him before he left to go into the Marines and it just said that if something should happen to him that I should get it but I didn't know it existed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium shot of pictures from copied diary\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium of Burlingame reading an excerpt from the copied diary\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend    \u003cbr/\u003e\"you know we had a lot of fun together, we went with a little different couples and as I said I went to the senior prom with him. It was fun.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - New Orleans May 24, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot of Peleliu display\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of picture Cpl. Thomas Jones (over beginning of SOT)\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' former girlfriend \u003cbr/\u003e\"\"well that was an upsetting day, it was like losing a good friend or a parent or something. It hit me. I was sad naturally. I cried. I hated it. I hated it for his family, and for his friends. And for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLocation - New Orleans May 24, 2013\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tight shot of Cpl. Jones' purple heart \u003cbr/\u003e15. Wider shot of purple heart, and other documents\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Eric Rivet, Curator \u003cbr/\u003e\"what it is, is it is a diary of a Marine named Thomas Jones. His nickname was Cotton, and it was given to him by his girlfriend Laura Mae Davis. What we have in it is basically just a young Marine, just like everybody else who went off to war, keeping his memories and we have lots of entries speaking about Laura Mae and how much he likes her and how he wishes he had married her.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' Former girlfriend   \u003cbr/\u003e\"I was really shocked that the diary was there, I gave it to him before he left to go into the Marines and it just said that if something should happen to him that I should get it but I didn't know it existed.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, Jones' Former girlfriend  \u003cbr/\u003e\"you know we had a lot of fun together, we went with a little different couples and as I said I went to the senior prom with him. It was fun.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, \u003cbr/\u003e\"well that was an upsetting day, it was like losing a good friend or a parent or something. It hit me. I was sad naturally. I cried. I hated it. I hated it for his family, and for his friends. And for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e**NOTE, Not final draft as of Sunday afternoon**\u003cbr/\u003eLaura Mae Davis Burlingame went to the National World War II Museum looking for a display commemorating the young Marine who had been her high-school sweetheart.\u003cbr/\u003eWhat she found brought tears almost 70 years after Cpl. Thomas \"Cotton\" Jones, a 22-year-old machine gunner, died in the bloody assault on a Japanese-held island.\u003cbr/\u003eBurlingame, now 90 and from Mooresville, Ind., didn't know the military diary she gave Jones had survived him. She saw it and read, \"If this Diary is lost and if it is Possible please return it to Miss Laura Mae Davis. Address. Winslow Indiana.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIt was both touching and a shock, she said in a phone interview Wednesday. \"I figured I'd see pictures of him and the fellows he'd served with and articles about where he served. I didn't have any idea there was a diary in there.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJones described the book as \"my life history of my days in the U.S. Marine Corps ... And most of all my love for Laura Mae for whom my heart is completely filled. So if you all get a chance please return it to her. I (am) writing this as my last life request.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA sniper's bullet between the eyes killed Jones on Sept. 17, 1944, the third day of the U.S. assault on the Pacific island of Peleliu (PEL-uh-loo), in Palau. He had started the diary as a private at Camp Elliott in San Diego, nine days shy of a year before his death.\u003cbr/\u003ePeleliu was where U.S. forces learned the Japanese had changed their island defense tactics. Instead of concentrating units on the beaches, the Japanese holed up in bunkers, trenches, pillboxes and caves _ many of them blasted into the island's hills and mountains _ that had to be taken one at a time.\u003cbr/\u003eLearning from defeats in the Solomons, Gilberts, Marshalls, and Marianas, \"the enemy made no suicidal banzai charges ... (and) carefully concealed his plans and dispositions. He nursed from his inferior strength the last ounce of resistance and delay, to extract the maximum cost from his conquerers,\" Maj. F.O. Hough wrote in a 1950 monograph for the Marine Corps.\u003cbr/\u003eJones, nicknamed in high school for his blond hair, was in the 1st Marine Division's L Company, 3rd Batallion. He was among 1,656 men killed on Peleliu and two nearby islands in a 2 1Ž2 month assault that Marine Maj. Gen. William Rupertus had predicted would be over in three days, maybe two. Another 7,959 Americans were wounded. An estimated 10,700 Japanese were killed; 19 became prisoners of war. Another 183 POWs were laborers, mostly Korean.\u003cbr/\u003eBurlingame, who married an Army Air Corps man in 1945, said she and friends visiting New Orleans with her wept a little when they saw Jones' diary and curator Eric Rivet (rih-VET) let her take a closer look, using white gloves to protect the old papers from skin oils. It was the first time in his 17 years of museum work that someone found \"themselves mentioned in an artifact in the museum,\" Rivet said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe tour group had to leave but the museum scanned the diary and mailed a copy to Burlingame.\u003cbr/\u003eShe and Jones met in the class of '41 at Winslow High School. \"He was a basketball player and I was a cheerleader.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJones had given her his class ring but they weren't engaged, she said. \"We were just good friends and had dated through high school. I had gone to the prom with him.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn those days, no street address was needed for mail in Winslow, a town of about 1,400 that has since shrunk to fewer than 900.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter high school, she went to business college and worked in the accounting department for an appliance manufacturer in Evansville, Ind.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the war she spent one day or evening a week as a \"cadet\" _ like a USO volunteer _ for troops in training at Camp Atterbury. \"Camp Atterbury would bring busloads for us cadets to dance with,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eShe didn't know why she never got the diary. It apparently went first to a sister of Jones whom she didn't know well, she said.\u003cbr/\u003eRobert Hunt of Evansville, the nephew who gave Jones' artifacts to the museum in 2001, told her he had received it several years after Jones' death and worried that passing it on to Burlingame might cause problems with her marriage. It wouldn't have, she said: \"my husband and Tommy were good friends.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWhen she learned Hunt was collecting mementoes for the museum, Burlingame said, she gave him photographs and the class ring.\u003cbr/\u003eJones wrote in the diary for about 2 1Ž2 months. His last entry, written aboard the USS Maui on Dec. 1, 1943, described winning $200 at craps. He had a total of $320, he wrote, and if he were back home \"Laura Mae \u0026amp; I would really have a wonderful Xmas.\" He wondered if he could wire the money to her as a Christmas present.\u003cbr/\u003eThat didn't happen, Burlingame said. She said she was touched by the number of times he mentioned getting letters from his parents and her.\u003cbr/\u003eThe diary's 4-by-7-inch back cover was nearly filled with her photograph. 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