Herewith, in memoriam, the names of comrades and the dates of their deaths. They are among the 14,844 Marines killed in Vietnam: LCPL. CARROLL FANKHAUSER 7/30/1965; PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 5/20/1965; CPL. BRIAN GAUTHIER, 7/11/1965; LCPL. REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1/25/1966; 2dLT. WALTER LEVY, 9/18/1965; PFC CURTIS LOCKHART, 7/30/65; PFC PATRICK MANNING, 7/30/1965; LTCOL JOSEPH MUIR, 9/11/1965; PFC STEVEN PAGE, 1/25/1966; 2dLT. JAMES PARMALEE,7/14/1965; LCPL. KENNETH SEISSER, 7/11/1965; 1stLT. ADAM SIMPSON, 1/25/1966; PFC LONNIE SNOW, 7/30/1965; SGT. HUGH SULLIVAN, 6/15/1965; 1stLT BRUCE WARNER, 2/3/1966; SGT. WILLIAM WEST, 3/28/1966.

Heart, you were never hot/Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot/And though your hand be pale/Paler are all which trail/Your cross through flame and hail/Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not.\

—Wilfred Owen, Killed in Action on the Western Front, Nov. 4, 1918.

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