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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Former Marines Aim to Snuff Out Dog Tag Sales of Vietnam KIA's

Former Marines Aim to Snuff Out Dog Tag Sales
August 10, 2011
Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.|by Chris Rosenblum

For $160, an eBay seller in Vietnam was offering a dog tag billed as authentic and belonging to a Soldier killed in action during the Vietnam War.

Posted was official-looking certification. Pfc. Jose Alvarez, from Los Angeles and with the 101st Airborne, had died May 2, 1969, in Thua Thien province.

Suehr, a 24-year-old Penn State student, had fought as a Marine infantryman in Afghanistan. The recent listing outraged him.

"I had tears in my eyes," he said. Suehr learned of the dog tags from a fellow Marine veteran and Penn State student, Erik Olson. Together, they decided to do something about it.
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