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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
November 11, 2004
Larry Fleskes is still haunted by the night he lost his best friend and 317 other shipmates off the coast of Iwo Jima.
A 27-year-old sailor who never learned to swim, Fleskes survived by flinging himself over the side of the sinking USS Bismarck into the black and swollen sea on Feb. 21,....
