HONORED ON PANEL 34E, LINE 86 OF THE WALL
STEPHEN ANTHONY GUARDINO
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STEPHEN A GUARDINO
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34E/86
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LEFT FOR STEPHEN ANTHONY GUARDINO
POSTED ON 12.13.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Stephen is buried at St Patrick's Cemetery, Norristown,PA. PH-GS
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POSTED ON 1.20.2004
POSTED BY: Donald Lytle
Thank you PFC Stephen Anthony Guardino
Although we never met personally, I want to thank you Stephen Anthony Guardino, for your courageous and valiant service, faithful contribution, and your most holy sacrifice given to this great country of ours!
Your Spirit is alive--and strong, therefore Marine, you shall never be forgotten, nor has your death been in vain!
Again, thank you PFC Stephen Anthony Guardino, for a job well done!
REST IN ETERNAL PEACE MY MARINE FRIEND
Your Spirit is alive--and strong, therefore Marine, you shall never be forgotten, nor has your death been in vain!
Again, thank you PFC Stephen Anthony Guardino, for a job well done!
REST IN ETERNAL PEACE MY MARINE FRIEND
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POSTED ON 8.27.2003
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
Area Marine Killed by Enemy In Viet Action
Area Marine Killed by Enemy In Viet Action
A Norristown couple's only child, who was wounded after being in Vietnam only three days, has been killed in action by enemy fire at Con Thien.
Marine Pfc. Stephen A. Guardino, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Guardino, of 1536 Markley st., was killed during a mission in that Vietnamese city.
SHOULDER WOUND
Pfc. Guardino had left for Vietnam on November 19 and was pressed into combat on December 1, three days after arriving. He was wounded in the shoulder that same day and was treated in field hospitals and hospitals in Saigon.
In his letters home, he said he was sent back to combat before his wounds had healed.
DISLIKED VIETNAM
An aunt, Mrs. Anne Picario, said he wrote that he disliked Vietnam "and would have done anything to get out."
A maintenance mechanic, he was a member of the 1st Amtrac Battalion, an amphibious unit.
Pfc. Guardino was a 1966 graduate of Bishop Kenrick High School in Norristown. Before enlisting in the Marines last April 26, he was a cashier at an Acme Market in King of Prussia.
Article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on January 24, 1968.
Semper Fidelis, Marine!
A Norristown couple's only child, who was wounded after being in Vietnam only three days, has been killed in action by enemy fire at Con Thien.
Marine Pfc. Stephen A. Guardino, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Guardino, of 1536 Markley st., was killed during a mission in that Vietnamese city.
SHOULDER WOUND
Pfc. Guardino had left for Vietnam on November 19 and was pressed into combat on December 1, three days after arriving. He was wounded in the shoulder that same day and was treated in field hospitals and hospitals in Saigon.
In his letters home, he said he was sent back to combat before his wounds had healed.
DISLIKED VIETNAM
An aunt, Mrs. Anne Picario, said he wrote that he disliked Vietnam "and would have done anything to get out."
A maintenance mechanic, he was a member of the 1st Amtrac Battalion, an amphibious unit.
Pfc. Guardino was a 1966 graduate of Bishop Kenrick High School in Norristown. Before enlisting in the Marines last April 26, he was a cashier at an Acme Market in King of Prussia.
Article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on January 24, 1968.
Semper Fidelis, Marine!
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POSTED ON 8.23.2003
POSTED BY: Ron Barron
3rd Platoon, Company "A", 1st Amtrac Battalion, 3rd Marine Division
I do not recall Stephen Anthony Guardino after 35 years now but I am quite sure that I did know him - at least by sight and by casual conversation, since we were in the same Platoon. For details on this event see comments at...Rick Duane Deeds' memorial page... who was killed in the same ambush.
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