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1 Jun 66
Dear Madeline,
…I doubt if I’ll come out of this war alive. In my original squad I’m the only one left unharmed. It seems every day another young guy 18 and 19 years old like myself is killed in action… All of us are scared ‘cause we know a lot of us won’t make it.
Ray
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PFC Raymond C. Griffiths, of San Francisco, went to Vietnam right after Christmas in 1965 and was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. He was killed in action on the Fourth of July 1966, a few weeks after he wrote the letter excerpted on the Memorial. He was 19 years old.
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