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HONORED ON PANEL 18W, LINE 104 OF THE WALL
MICHAEL BRIAN MCGINNIS
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MICHAEL B MCGINNIS
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POSTED ON 2.18.2007
POSTED BY: GENE DARRAH
Friends before WAR
I hung out at the levtn bowling alleys, Mike was a few years younger then us but didn't back away from anything.I have always had him in my thoughts. He was 1 of 5 friends I lost from Levtn pa.Seems we all hung at the alleys.Peace be with you Mike.
POSTED ON 1.29.2004
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
PFC Michael B. McGinnis, USMC
Semper Fidelis, Mike!
Photo supplied by Liz Peter, Mike's niece and God-child, for the McGinnis family.
POSTED ON 12.18.2002
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
Levittown Marine Killed in Viet Action
Article was taken from The Philadelphia Inquirer of September 23, 1969.
Levittown Marine Killed in Viet Action
A Levittown serviceman, who wanted to be a marine since he was six, was killed last Wednesday near Cam Lo, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, the Defense Department announced Monday.
He was Marine Pfc. Michael B. McGinnis, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. McGinnis Sr. of 52 Tall Pine lane, Levittown. Pfc. McGinnis was a team leader in a combat demolition platoon. He was killed by a grenade, the Defense Department said.
Pfc. McGinnis was with the 3d Marine Division, 3d Engineering Battalion. President Nixon had ordered the withdrawal of the division by December 15 and the young marine had been scheduled to go on leave this Wednesday.
His younger sisters, Coreen, 12, and Peggy, 16, received his last letter on the day he was killed. He asked them to get his room and his car ready.
Pfc. McGinnis was a tackle on the Pennsbury High School football team. He was graduated last year. His father was a veteran of World War II and served in the Navy.
In addition to his parents, Pfc. McGinnis is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Gallagher, Mrs. Adrienne Johnson, Coreen and Peggy, and two brothers, Joseph W. Jr. and Robert J.
SEMPER FIDELIS, MIKE!
Levittown Marine Killed in Viet Action
A Levittown serviceman, who wanted to be a marine since he was six, was killed last Wednesday near Cam Lo, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, the Defense Department announced Monday.
He was Marine Pfc. Michael B. McGinnis, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. McGinnis Sr. of 52 Tall Pine lane, Levittown. Pfc. McGinnis was a team leader in a combat demolition platoon. He was killed by a grenade, the Defense Department said.
Pfc. McGinnis was with the 3d Marine Division, 3d Engineering Battalion. President Nixon had ordered the withdrawal of the division by December 15 and the young marine had been scheduled to go on leave this Wednesday.
His younger sisters, Coreen, 12, and Peggy, 16, received his last letter on the day he was killed. He asked them to get his room and his car ready.
Pfc. McGinnis was a tackle on the Pennsbury High School football team. He was graduated last year. His father was a veteran of World War II and served in the Navy.
In addition to his parents, Pfc. McGinnis is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Gallagher, Mrs. Adrienne Johnson, Coreen and Peggy, and two brothers, Joseph W. Jr. and Robert J.
SEMPER FIDELIS, MIKE!
POSTED ON 10.26.2002
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
Salute to an old friend
Semper Fi!
It's been a long time since we were split up in Da Nang when we first arrived in country. But I never thought that was going to be the last time we would see each other.
When I received word from my Mom that you were killed, I would often think, 'why Mike and not me'. I would continue to ask myself this question over the years. Never coming to any satisfactory conclusion. But after getting myself, to finally get to the Wall and seeing for myself the awesomeness of it and all the names of men that would be around my age. I just sat on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with my oldest son, on Veterans Day, 2001, and cried out in hopelessness,'why,why, we were only nineteen years old, what did they want from us'. And now today, as probably will be the rest of my life, I'll just ask 'why'.
Your friend,
Jim McIlhenney
POSTED ON 11.10.2000
POSTED BY: J. Patrick Logan
Veterans Day 2000
On this Veterans Day 2000, we, as a nation, are amidst a great uncertainty as to which of two people can
constitutionally and legitimately succeed to the highest office in our constitutional republic. So too, on this
Veterans Day 2000, let us not forget my high school classmate, Michael B. McGinnis, and others as well, who paid the
ultimate price and made the ultimate sacrifice so that we, the living, and our children, and, God willing,
our children's children, may enjoy the blessings of liberty and freedom, including the right to vote. So now, some
thirty-one years since Mike made that sacrifice, let it be honored and not forgotten.
constitutionally and legitimately succeed to the highest office in our constitutional republic. So too, on this
Veterans Day 2000, let us not forget my high school classmate, Michael B. McGinnis, and others as well, who paid the
ultimate price and made the ultimate sacrifice so that we, the living, and our children, and, God willing,
our children's children, may enjoy the blessings of liberty and freedom, including the right to vote. So now, some
thirty-one years since Mike made that sacrifice, let it be honored and not forgotten.