My mom passed last year and I've been going through her old photos. I found a framed picture of a marine in uniform, and the newspaper clipping stating his name and hometown and that he was shipping off to Parris Island (I do not have the exact text in front of me). I believe he was likely just someone she went to high school with, and they would have graduated in 1959, this is not a "hunting down a relative" situation.
I'd love to track down the family and get them the picture, but I think that's beyond the scope of my efforts (I've already read up on how, if you're not next of kin, you have to put in a request for records and so on...). But it's still got me curious what this young man's experience might have been like? What was going on that year, would he likely have gone straight into battle, or would he have been able to do his time without that? I find myself wondering if he lived a long and happy life or a tragically short one.
Neither the clipping nor the picture have a date, but my mom was born in 1940 and the other yearbook pictures she saved, with various notes and signatures on the back, all say 1959. There is no mention of any unit or any other structural information about who this soldier was with, just the Parris Island reference in the newspaper clipping. We are all from Massachusetts, if that provides any useful info or context.
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