18 Jul 2007 Garland was a distant cousin but family still. I remember the day the local paper ran a news article where the Army awarded his medals to his mom and dad. I visted his mother years later and she had a beautful portait of him hanging in her house. A few days short of his 20 birthday ... it was had to say good by. Charles Echols Ochlocknee, Georgia lifer93@bellsouth.net

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall In the first week of 1968 the 196th Infantry Brigade sent elements of three infantry battalions into the Hiep Duc Valley in Quang Tin Province - 2/1st Infantry, 3/21st Infantry, 4/31st Infantry. By 04 Jan the units were having increased contact with VC and NVA forces, culminating in a major battle on 09/10 Jan 1968. PFC Griffin's unit, Delta Company, 3/21st Infantry, lost eight men on 10 January: 2LT Richard J. Seibert, Far Hills, NJ (Dist Svc Cross) SGT Edwin F. Brown, Beloit, WI SGT Jerome W. Ellenson, Walcott, ND SGT Jeffrey Perez, Elmhurst, NY CPL Charles L. Hanselman, Dearborn, MI CPL Benton Michaud, Fort Kent, ME PFC Francis H. Andrysiak, Glen Head, NY PFC Garland A. Griffin, Coolidge, GA

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