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    Vietnam letters given to family

    COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

    07.14.2012

    Photo by Sgt. Grant Matthes 

    101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

    Charles T. Ferillo, Jr., Chairman, South Carolina Memorial Park Commission speaks to family members and attendees of a ceremony in Columbia, S.C., July 14. The ceremony was held to transfer letters written by Sgt. Steve Flaherty in Vietnam to family members. Flaherty was killed in action, March 25, 1969, while on combat operations with the 101st Airborne Division, in the A Shau-A Luoi Valley, Vietnam. The letters he was carrying were taken by the Vietnamese after his death and returned to Secretary Leon Panetta by Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi, Vietnam, June 4.

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    Date Taken: 07.14.2012
    Date Posted: 07.16.2012 17:02
    Photo ID: 625907
    VIRIN: 120714-A-9035M-001
    Resolution: 3872x2592
    Size: 4.38 MB
    Location: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, US

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