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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