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2009 Denver Reunion Attendee Roster
Now online
"Doc" Jerry D. Griffin
Bravo
Battery 1/13 HM
10/17/1938 - 6/22/2009
"Doc"
Jerry D. Griffin B Btry 1/13 passed away yesterday, June
22 2009, 1:30 pm, while in the hospital. Doc was 70
years young.
Back in
January Doc had by pass surgery, he returned to the hospital
after complaining of not feeling well.
"Doc"
Griffin served in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman for 20 years
and did two tours in Vietnam, doing what he did best, take
care of his Marines.
Jerry D. Griffin
10/17/1938 - 6/22/2009
Semper Fi Doc
Funeral arrangements will be
posted
here when they become available
Funeral Home Guest book
In The News
Remains of
PFC Jose Ramon Sanchez Return Home
PFC Jose Ramon Sanchez
H&S 1/4, 81mm Mortars
KIA June 06, 1968
By Larry Mcshane
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, March 22nd 2009, 4:00 AM
As the days became years that
faded into history, as Jose Sanchez became a sad, distant
memory, a 5-by-7-inch index card bore witness to his short
life.
The Brooklyn teen's name was
typed neatly across the Marine Corps Casualty Card, with the
date and place of his last day alive: June 6, 1968. Quang
Tri Province. Vietnam.
The details were sparse; the
words terse: "The helicopter he was aboard received small
arms fire. After crashing, the helicopter rolled down the
side of a mountain and burned.
When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get
Going
Col. Don Myers.
By Col. Don Myers
H 2/3
A mind Of My Own
Published: March 6, 2009
Tampa Tribune, Hernando Today
I don't recall who first uttered the words for
the title of this article, but they are so apropos to the
challenges we face today. There are two organizations in this
world that I truly love — the United States of America and the
United States Marine Corps. Each of those organizations faced
countless challenges to their very existence throughout the
years.
Continue reading
here...
Phillip D. Mineer: Case Closed In Camp Fire
Death
Phillip D. Mineer
1/13 Bravo Battery
An investigation has concluded in the death of a Vietnam
veteran whose burned
body was discovered last summer at a Surry County campsite,
with authorities not knowing exactly how he died.
“Undetermined is the cause of death,” Surry Emergency Services
Director John Shelton said Wednesday of just-released results
from the state medical examiner’s office regarding the case of
Phillip D. Mineer, 61, of Fort Myers, Fla.
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Robert Arrotta and Glenn Prentice
Vietnam vets share Khe Sanh experiences with
air station
Battle of Khe Sanh veterans Robert Arrotta and Glenn Prentice
spoke to station retired Marines at the Sonoran Pueblo Friday,
sharing their combat experience and providing a glimpse of the
Corps' past.
Arrotta and Prentice focused on the air to ground
communication employment of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force
on Hill 881, one of several strategically important hills
surrounding Khe Sanh in the western Quang Tri Province.
When Arrotta's forward air controller was wounded and
evacuated, he took control and directed more than 300 close
air support missions, medical evacuations and resupply
missions.
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Education Lobbyist, Bob Lee Brown 11th
Engineers
Remembers Khe Sanh
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Upon returning from a
13-month tour in Vietnam, Bob Brown and his fellow comrades
were greeted by protestors pelting their bus with eggs and
calling them "baby killers."
Brown, a 19-year-old at the time from Campbells Creek, never
got upset. He had
just endured the nightmare of war, including the Battle of Khe
Sanh, which resulted in 572 American deaths and up to 15,000
North Vietnamese casualties.
Now he was on a bus in El Toro, Calif., for this
not-so-gracious homecoming.
"I remember not getting mad," said Brown, a longtime education
lobbyist in Charleston. "I thought, 'Well this is America. And
at least in theory, that's what we were supposed to be
fighting for - so people could be free to do and feel and say
what they wanted.
"Had that occurred before I went over, I'd have been looking
for a fight."
Continued here..
Maj. William J. O'Connor
Charlie Btry. 1/13
South Coast Today:
DARTMOUTH — William J. O'Connor, 68, of
Dartmouth, died Friday, January 30, 2009 after a courageous
battle with cancer. He is survived by his loving wife of 43
years, Marcella (Pease) O'Connor, his sons Kevin J. O'Connor
of Kissimmee, FL, and Matthew J. O'Connor of New Bedford; his
sisters, Joan Reicherter and her husband
Charles of Tinton Falls, NJ, and Dorothy Mullen and her
husband Edward of Wading River, NY; along with many nieces and
nephews.
Born in the Bronx, NY, the son of the late
Joseph V. and Katherine (Walpole) O'Connor, he graduated from
St. John's University with a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree. He also pursued graduate studies at
George Washington University.
Mr. O'Connor worked for many years in the
metallurgical industry. He and his family moved to Dartmouth
in 1982 while he was employed at Teledyne Rodney Metals. For
the past 10 years prior to his retirement in 2007, he was
employed as a loan officer at Compass Bank and Sovereign Bank,
and also a senior loan officer at First Horizon Home Loans.
William joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1961
as a 2nd Lieutenant, serving in Vietnam as an Aerial Observer
with the 12th Marines in Northern I Corps, and as the
Commanding Officer of Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion 13th
Marines during the historic siege of Khe Sanh. He left active
duty in 1969 and was honorably discharged as a U.S. Marine
Corps Major.
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Khe Sanh Veterans Inc.
Scholarship Fund
2009
The Khe Sanh Veterans Inc.
Scholarship Fund is available to all Children and
Grandchildren of members in good standing of the Khe Sanh
Veterans Inc.
Click here for details and scholarship application forms
Lt Gen Victor H. “Brute” Krulak dies at 95
Jan 7, 1913 - Dec 30, 2008
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