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Bob Atkinson | K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment - Marines

9:18   |   Back in the states, Bob Atkinson tried to exercise his leg and knee and get the strength back. He had four months to go and was at Quantico when Martin Luther King was assassinated and he was put on a street corner in Washington guarding a liquor store.

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