Manuel Aguiar Soares
Lance Corporal
C CO, 3RD ENG BN, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Fall River, Massachusetts
November 09, 1946 to October 08, 1968
(Incident Date September 18, 1968)
MANUEL A SOARES is on the Wall at Panel W41, Line 32

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Combat Action Ribbon
 
Manuel A Soares
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26 Jan 2004

He was a young Marine who never got the chance. He was killed on his first time out. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was there when he got hit, he died days later. Unfortunately we in his platoon never got the opportunity to find out how unique of a person he was.


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

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LCpl Manuel A. Soares, a combat engineer assigned to the 3rd Engineer Battalion, was in the field with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, at the time of his death.

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