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Lt. Col. Townley Hedrick, deputy commander, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, 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.
| Date Taken: | 07.14.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 07.16.2012 17:02 |
| Photo ID: | 625908 |
| VIRIN: | 120714-A-9035M-002 |
| Resolution: | 3872x2592 |
| Size: | 4.4 MB |
| Location: | COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Web Views: | 31 |
| Downloads: | 4 |
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