•June 24, 2020•
By Joe Pound
for the News Progress

Today I sat down with John Junior Green (Johnnie Green), who is being cared for by Lulubelle (Logue) Morris, my next door neighbor to the south. John is 94 years of age (born in 1926) and has a home elsewhere in Sullivan.
He is the son of Earl Lucion Green & Mildred Moran. Their children are Dorothy, John J., Robert, Billy, Jimmy and Inius, who died at birth. John’s children are Linda (Robinson) & John S.
John’s health is fragile and his hearing is minimal even with hearing aids, but his memory of his WW II experiences is excellent. To communicate Lulubelle speaks directly into his left ear the questions that I asked him. Even then he often needed her to repeat the question.
My purpose in visiting with John and Lulubelle, was to ask about his service in the U. S. Navy in the western Pacific during WW II. Lulubelle had advised me in an earlier backyard conversation about his many fascinating stories from his service during the great war. I was also encouraged to consider this history story by the June 2020 issue of the National Geographic magazine. The cover article is “The Last Voices of World War II.”
Johnnie Green is certainly one of those voices.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.