Garland Alex Griffin, Jr
Private First Class
D CO, 3RD BN, 21ST INFANTRY, 196TH INFANTRY BDE, AMERICAL DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Coolidge, Georgia
February 14, 1948 to January 10, 1968
GARLAND A GRIFFIN Jr is on the Wall at Panel 34E, Line 19

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18 Jul 2007

Garland was a distant cousin but family still. I remember the day the local paper ran a news article where the Army awarded his medals to his mom and dad. I visted his mother years later and she had a beautful portait of him hanging in her house. A few days short of his 20 birthday ... it was had to say good by.

Charles Echols
Ochlocknee, Georgia
lifer93@bellsouth.net


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

In the first week of 1968 the 196th Infantry Brigade sent elements of three infantry battalions into the Hiep Duc Valley in Quang Tin Province - 2/1st Infantry, 3/21st Infantry, 4/31st Infantry. By 04 Jan the units were having increased contact with VC and NVA forces, culminating in a major battle on 09/10 Jan 1968. PFC Griffin's unit, Delta Company, 3/21st Infantry, lost eight men on 10 January:
  • 2LT Richard J. Seibert, Far Hills, NJ (Dist Svc Cross)
  • SGT Edwin F. Brown, Beloit, WI
  • SGT Jerome W. Ellenson, Walcott, ND
  • SGT Jeffrey Perez, Elmhurst, NY
  • CPL Charles L. Hanselman, Dearborn, MI
  • CPL Benton Michaud, Fort Kent, ME
  • PFC Francis H. Andrysiak, Glen Head, NY
  • PFC Garland A. Griffin, Coolidge, GA

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