Note:  The following is one of many stories submitted by World War II Marine George Peto.  You can click on his picture for all of his stories.  This is the first of three parts of a longer story he calls, "The Hard Luck Kid". Three degrees north of the Tropic of Cancer at 127 degrees longitude is the island of Okinawa.  It was here that I stood before a small wooden cross and said my last goodb…