While bystanders stood outside recording a hotel engulfed in flames before dawn, a young United States Marine chose action. Lance Cpl. Marshall Martinez ran into the burning Hotel Hamby Resort in Chatan, Okinawa, pounding on doors and shouting to awaken sleeping occupants. Martinez, a 25 year old combat engineer from Fillmore, California, was walking home with his girlfriend early Aug. 15 when he noticed fire spreading through the hotel. With li…
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