Japan, 1945: "When the ship pulled into the harbor I could see bodies still floating, killed by the atomic bomb. I saw all the dead Japanese, the children, women and elders. I went to the crater where the bomb had landed and the devastation, the carnage, brought me back to the feelings of Big Hole where my great-grandfather fought in that war down there, and the way women and children and old people were massacred or killed (at Big Hole ). And that kind of almost a comparison to what I seen with my own eyes.

Timlpusmin, Horace's great-grandfather  ". ..lived through Big Hole by singing his power song but was killed later at Bear Paw. Yellow Wolf marked the spot where he was killed and I visit there every year. It is sacred ground to me." Horace is the Spiritual Leader of the Nez Perce (Nimiipu) and The Seven Drum Religion. His traditional name is lsluumnts from his grandfather. He served in the Army's 529th Engineer Unit.

We honor you Horace for your dedicated service.