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Pvt. Mike Mansfield: Just One Marine in Arlington Cemetery

Of all the chiseled stones standing silent watch over us in these uncivil and dangerous political times, this Memorial Day consider one modest white-marble slab on a green hillside at Arlington National Cemetery: Michael Joseph Mansfield PVT U.S. Marine Corps Mar 16 1903 Oct 5 2001 Private Mansfield fell not in battle like so many Americans, nor did he endure combat's scars. He lived to know his grandchildren and died at 98 in Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In these MySpace and "American Idol" days, he ordered that his headstone in Arlington disclose no more personal glory than that honor ...

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