Charles T. Ferillo, Jr., Chairman, South Carolina Memorial
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Charles T. Ferillo, Jr., Chairman, South Carolina Memorial Park Commission speaks to family members and attendees of a ceremony in Columbia, S.C., July 14. The ceremony was held to transfer letters written by Sgt. Steve Flaherty in Vietnam to family members. Flaherty was killed in action, March 25, 1969, while on combat operations with the 101st Airborne Division, in the A Shau-A Luoi Valley, Vietnam. The letters he was carrying were taken by the Vietnamese after his death and returned to Secretary Leon Panetta by Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi, Vietnam, June 4.
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14/07/2012
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