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The Universal Soldier

April 2024
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In your February/March letters column, reader Tom Justice writes that “if I am not mistaken, the Marine in your November 2000 ‘Frontispiece’ is a fellow named Bill Sievers. . . .” Mr. Justice was mistaken. The Marine in the photo is Fred Merritt.

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