James Reeff enlisted into the U.S. Marine Corps in May 1964, serving for the next four years, including a tour in Vietnam. In August 1965, Reeff was wounded in action while serving as part of Operation Starlite.
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“The only times I was away from my company was on a ROR to Hong Kong, and when I was wounded and spent time on the Hospital Ship Sanctuary, and at the Da Nang Naval Hospital. I was wounded for the second time in August 1967 and returned my company in late September 1967.”
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Georgia's representative for during Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission #1, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Russell Morgan earned his Purple Heart during a fire fight in Da Nang. During his service, Morgan also earned the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the National Defense Medal.
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Mike Ali was born in 1948 in the Lower East Side of New York City. As a young child, his family moved to the Kingsbridge area of the Bronx, a “giant melting pot... with a very ethnically diverse community.” Growing up in the Marble Hill housing project with two thousand other neighborhood children was “a lot of fun. We were kids
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