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DILLARD E PETERSON

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DILLARD ERIC PETERSON

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DILLARD E PETERSON

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POSTED ON 5.11.2003

POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney

One of Philadelphia PA's 630 fallen sons.

Photo was taken from the Philadelphia Daily News of October 26, 1987. The special supplement entitled, 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' was published in conjunction with the dedication of the Philadelphia Viet Nam Memorial.

Semper Fidelis, Marine!

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POSTED ON 10.3.2002

POSTED BY: Robert Greer

Marine tank crewman and rifleman

Dillard E. Peterson
W.Tioga Street, Tioga

Peterson attended Roxborough High School and worked as a pawnbroker for several months before enlisting in the Marine Corps in June 1966. The 20-year-old lance corporal, a tank crewman and rifleman with Company K of the 3rd Battalion, 27th Marines, 1st Marine Division, died in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, on April 19, 1968. He was survived by his parents.
... from The Philadelphia Daily News

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POSTED ON 12.5.1999

POSTED BY: Bob Schulz

God fearing man.

He was a God fearing man and I will always remember him for that. He offered a prayer each time someone got hit or died. I did the same for him the day he died.

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