On this episode of Our American Stories, after watching Saving Private Ryan, Jay Moore walked into a bookstore in Texas and struck up a conversation with an older man browsing a World War II book. That man was Joe Brown, a Marine veteran whose service took him through Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian, some of the hardest fighting in the Pacific.

What began as a brief exchange turned into a friendship and a firsthand encounter with the kind of war hero most Americans never expect to meet in ordinary life.

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