Mark Robert Dziedzic

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22 Nov 2006 Mark, I just gotten to know you when your life was taken along with my best friend Dave Simmons, and Dennis Zwirchitz on a daylight patrol north of the Cua Viet River. It was devastating to lose all three of you together. Someday, we will meet again. From a friend and fellow Marine, Lee S. Aitken 9970 N. Black Mesa Trail, Tucson, Arizona 85742 laitken1@msn.com

A Note from The Virtual Wall 16 March 1968:      Hotel Company made heavy contact while successfully extracting an eight man recon patrol which earlier made contact with a large enemy force at YD 261659, the fortified village of Vinh Quan Ha. 21 enemy were killed while friendly losses were 3 KIA (BNR) and 9 WIAE. The bodies were recovered on 18 March 1968. From the 2/4 Marines' Command Chronology, March 1968 The three men who died while rescuing their fellow Marines were 2nd Plt, A Co, 5th Tank Bn (BLT 2/4's attached tank platoon): Sgt David L. Simmons, Grand Rapids, MI H Co, 2nd Bn, 4th Marines: Pfc Mark R. Dziedzic, Oak Creek, WI Pfc Dennis J. Zwirchitz, Abbotsford, WI (Silver Star)

The point-of-contact for this memorial is a friend and fellow Marine, Lee S. Aitken 9970 N. Black Mesa Trail, Tucson, Arizona 85742 laitken1@msn.com

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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Memorial first published on 22 Nov 2006
Last updated 11/28/2006