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28 Jun 68
Dear Mom and Dad,
…The Khe Sanh village was overrun but not the combat base. All my gear was destroyed…My best buddy was killed the day before yesterday. He caught a piece of shrapnel in the head. I carried him over to the aid station where he died. I cried my eyes out!…He had 67 days left in country and then he was to return to his wife and daughter….I have aged greatly. I feel like an old man now. I have seen enough of war and its destruction. I am scarred by it but not scared enough to quit…We have so little over here but we share it all….
Your son and Marine,
Kevin
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Kevin Macaulay, a corporal with Company B, 3rd Recon Battalion, 3rd Marine Division from June 1967-June 1968, was at the combat base at Khe Sanh during the siege. When the Memorial was dedicated, he was working as a school custodian in Queens, New York for the New York City Board of Education.
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