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Douglas Dean Holland
Private First Class
H&S CO, 1ST BN, 9TH MARINES, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF United States Marine Corps Inwood, Iowa January 27, 1946 to January 16, 1968 DOUGLAS D HOLLAND is on the Wall at Panel 34E, Line 58 |
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When I was five years old, Doug came to San Diego for Basic Training. I remember looking out the window at the rain as my family drove to the airport to pick him up. Doug stayed with us that night, and left for the Depot the next day. Several months later, my mother sat me down in our kitchen. She asked if I remembered my cousin who had visited that rainy night. Then, my mother lowered her eyes and told me that Doug had been killed in a distant country. That was the first of many stories I would hear of Vietnam. They never got any better.
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