This Day in History: "Kitten Marine, Korea"
On and around this day in 1953, a photo of a United States Marine is published in nearly two thousand newspapers, including the February edition of All Hands magazine, a U.S. Navy publication. The photo depicted then-Sgt. Frank Praytor hand-feeding a baby kitten with a small medicine dropper.
The two-week old kitten’s mother had been killed during the fighting at Bunker Hill.
The photo, the U.S. Naval Institute concludes, “would prove to be more that just an endearing moment of humanity captured in the midst of a brutal war, it would later save [Praytor] from being court martialed.”
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