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HONORED ON PANEL 23E, LINE 48 OF THE WALL
ANTHONY ALLEN
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ANTHONY ALLEN
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LEFT FOR ANTHONY ALLEN
POSTED ON 9.27.2001
POSTED BY: Robert Greer
The 20-year-old Marine corporal had volunteered
to-stay an extra week in Vietnam when he was killed in Da Nang, Quang Nam Province,
on July 11, 1967, after a lightning bolt ignited grenades and anti-personnel mines stored
in his bunker. The Murrell Dobbins Vocational High School graduate had been on more
than 30 long-range patrols as a rifleman and reconnaissance scout with the 1st Forward
Reconnaisance Company of the 1st Marine Division. He was survived by his mother,
to whom he wrote "The only person Marines look up to is God."