Tom Taylor was born April 14, 1946, in Roswell, New Mexico. He died peacefully at his home in Ruidoso Downs on May 20, 2025.

Pvt. Ben Leslie’s life was snuffed out aboard a Japanese “hell ship” in January 1945. Moored at the port of Takao in present-day Taiwan, the ship Enoura Maru held the New Mexico soldier and other ...