Please help! I need some information. My Grandfather,Clifton "CJ" Terral,(22d marines, 6th division, Co C) is on a WWII stamp, part of the 1945 "Victory at Last" series. It's the stamp with the yellow background (Okinawa, the last big battle). I know this because in either '94 or '95 he got a call from the Veterans Administration telling him to be looking for it. They said he would not be able to recognize himself on such a small stamp and they wanted to let him know that it was him. (I'm wondering if he had to sign something for them to use his photograph) He always said that photographers followed his Company taking pictures but none of us thought it would end up on a stamp. Okay...here's what I need help with....I don't have any documentation that that is him. I know it is but I would like to pass the stamp down to my children and I'd like there to be some documentation with it. The photograph they used has to be somewhere and it has to be labeled with his name, otherwise how would they have known to contact him? I haven't even been able to find the photographer's name. I am getting really tired and frustrated and have finally resorted to cutting and pasting this letter on a few sites that might be knowledgable in this area. I would really like to have the original photograph with documentation, or maybe that's wishful thinking. Do you know how I would go about this? Thanks so much for your time, Kimberly
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