I try hard to make my stories interesting and I also try very hard to make them accurate. Occasionally I make a mistake and in a recent post I made one I deeply regret.
On January 23 I posted a story about “Castner’s Cutthroats” a special force organized to do battle in the Aleutians. Among other things they led the Army ashore on Attu when they took it back from the Japanese.
In that story I included this sentence. “The Japanese shot one cutthroat, Bad Whiskey Red, through the heart while the others dove for cover.”
Yesterday two comments appeared on that post.
Matthew says:
My Grandfather, Alfred Brattain ( aka Bad Whiskey Red ) survived WW2. In fact he lived a long life afterwards to the ripe old age of 93. He was a great man! A man’s man! He had many memories and stories of that time in his life.
Bruce G Brattain says:
Bad Wisky Red was my father, Alfred A Brattain. He was not shot through the heart or I would not be here. Nor would my two sisters. Bruce Brattain
I sincerely apologize for the error and I have removed the offending sentence from the story.