Private 1st Class Bates will forever remain a member of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, for he is another guardian angel to watch over today's Marines as we continue our fight to preserve freedom. Last week, cemetery clerk Duane Vachon was reading a December 1995 article in VFW magazine about Japanese "zanryusha" - stragglers - who continued to fight the war in remote Pacific islands, such as Guam.