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Master Sergeant Epifanio Castillo, Jr. Photos Courtesy of Floyd Killough Collection
A Marine crossing a rice paddy with an M-60 machine gun.
Jr. Castillo as a junior at Dodson High School.
Cpl. Epifanio Castillo, Jr. earned the prestigious Navy Achievement Medal with a Combat “V”, issued by the Secretary of the Navy for his overall leadership, including action during Operation Durham Peak.
“Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be,what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn,”noted General Douglas MacArthur in a speech to the U.S. Military Acad emy at W e s t Point.When Epifanio...