Writing about books, hiking, the Battle of Tarawa and more

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September 26, 2015 by Clay Bonnyman Evans 2 Comments

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LT J Perez says

September 27, 2015 at 3:43 pm

Congrats to Mr Evans on getting our hero home where he belongs, with his family and his country. (Salute)

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- Clay Bonnyman Evans says
  
  September 28, 2015 at 7:50 am
  
  Thank you, sir.
  
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Clay Bonnyman Evans is a freelance writer who lives in South Carolina and Colorado. In his career as a journalist, he wrote for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register and Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.) His book, "Bones of My Grandfather," will be published by Skyhorse Publishing in July 2018. It is the story of his grandfather, First Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., who was killed in the battle of Tarawa on Nov. 22, 1943 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Since 2010, Evans has been involved with efforts to recover Marine remains from Tarawa with nonprofit History Flight, Inc. He was present in May 2015 for the discovery and exhumation of his grandfather, who was reinterred in Knoxville, Tennessee in September 2015. More.