The 99-year-old has been Joy Purdy's neighbor for 12 years, but she didn't know until recently that he's a Marine Corps veteran who survived World War II, and years later, 'met God' in a life-changing experience.
– Just about every day, for more than a decade, I would see Winton Carter on his daily walk down the street in our Clay County neighborhood, or returning home from somewhere in his pickup truck.
One is a former marine, another a former sailor of the U.S. Navy, and the third a former soldier in the U.S. Army."She's been dead about 12 years," Carter said matter-of-factly. "He banged on the table with his club and says, 'Hey guys! You have to get back to the base right away, The Japanese have bombed Pearl/Harbor!'" Carter recalled.
"I was trudging along at one point, and I saw a guy's head laying right there. No body, just, just a head," Carter said while showing no emotion. "I didn't stop. I just looked at it and went on.""After a few days, you see so many events and so many corpses," he stated. "It's like going through a watermelon patch. You don't pay attention to it.
After the blast, he said he reached down to feel his leg still there, so he kept fighting. It wasn't until two days later during a stop at a makeshift bathroom that he saw puss running down the back of my leg and quickly visited the infirmary.
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