‘A tough life, but a good one’: 99-year-old Rockford WWII veteran was wounded at Okinawa 81 years ago Monday

Eighty-one years ago, an 18-year-old Stan Primmer was knocked out and blown out of his clothes after a Japanese kamikaze pilot dropped a bomb and slammed the plane into the U.S. Navy veteran’s ship off the island of Okinawa.