Sometime I think Marines are horders, but then When I was going through my mothers closets, I found my MCRD booklet with this picture attached and my wool Ike jacket and trousers, (Marines do not wear pants) how skinny we all were in 1958. She had even had my boondockers (gone now) . Its not the Marines that kept the items, it was a parent, girl friend or wife. SSGT J. I. Lathen was the Platoon leader and a Korean Vet and old yea, Hill was the Platoon Guide, from Texas. One other comment, we had Franklin M. Ramos from Hawaii who on had hair down to the middle of his back when he arrived at the yellow footprints.It was the longest hair this Nebraska boy had seen on a man.
Robert D. Gordon (Lawson)
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