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Wake Islander en · NOUN

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1. someone from Wake Island.
   • On the other side of the coin is the story of a fluttery lady visitor who glanced at a flag over the air terminal. ‘My goodness!”’ she said. “Isn’t that wonderful—to see flying up there the same tattered flag that the marines refused to surrender to the Japanese?”’ The Wake Islander beside her just smiled. He didn’t trouble to explain that the marines did surrender, flags and all, or that the terminal colors are tattered because the wind blows a lot. This was near the end of the month, almost time for the new flag which goes up every thirty days. 1956 January 28, William L. Worden, “Exiles on a Pinpoint”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 84:
   • On January 20, the Nitta Maru departed Yokohama and headed toward the Japanese-controlled Chinese port at Shanghai. During the voyage, the Japanese committed an atrocity that no Wake Islander learned about until later. 2003, John Wukovits, Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, New American Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207:

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