U. S. Marine killed in Vietnam comes back to life
Life expectancy for a machine gunner in Vietnam was 2. 8 seconds. U. S. Marine Corps Veteran Private First Class Charles Armitage learned that all too well in January 1969 serving as an M60 machine gunner while attached to Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. Listen to Charles tell his story of how a medical corpsman sealed his fate with a toe tag and a status of killed in action as we commemorate Vietnam Veterans Day in another episode of Stories of Valor.
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