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By planning the moves of the excavator lifting machine and over all operation using slings and hand tools, 25 headstones were reset in one very busy day. Work started in Section Y then moved to nearby Section M. Some of these stones were reported down in a 1960 newspaper article. The depressions from the downed stones have since been levelled…

Vincent S. Coles was only 17 when he was sent to Vietnam to fight and had just turned 18 when he was killed in action. A native of Newark, Coles grew up on West Kinney Street and attended West Kinney Junior High School as well as Newark Vocational School. He left school to join the U.S. Marines Corps and began…