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-Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 30,1975
Page 20
The last two Marines killed in Viet war
By United Press International
Charles McMahon Jr., 22, named “Boy of the Year” in
Woburn, Mass., in 1971, was at home earlier this month,
relaxing with his friends. Darwin Judge, 19, of Marshall
town, lowa, was graduated from high school last June,
joined the Marines, and was put in an honor detachment.
Then they went to Vietnam.
Charles and Edna McMahon said goodby to their son
April 5. They weren’t worried —the war was just about
over.
But two Marines walked up to the McMahon's pink and
white home Tuesday with the worst possible news. Their
There were no rallies in Times Square at the end
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Indochina War ended as no
other American conflict had:
with U.S. citizens and their
friends evacuated by helicopter,
with gun-toting Marines to
protect them from both the
enemy and the former allies
they left behind.
There were no rallies in
Times Square, no ticker tape
parades, no triumphant
homecomings.
Some newsmen stayed
United Press International
There are still Americans in
Saigon today.
Many are American corre
spondents, seeing through to
the end the story of a war that
lasted 30 years.
Some, including four United
Press International reporters,
had no choice Tuesday on
whether to join the evacuation
of Saigon or whether to keep
sending out their stories from
the South Vietnamese capital.
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The triumph was left to the
Communists and their allies,
who had been fighting for 30
years against the French, the
Americans and the South
Vietnamese associated with
these foreigners.
The United States had to
negotiate with the Communists
to make sure the evacuation
went smoothly, officials said
Tuesday.
Frightened, angry mobs kept
Saigon bureau chief Alan
Dawson, Asia news editor
Daniel, and correspondents
Paul Vogle and Charles Huntley
from boarding buses to heli
copter staging areas or scaling
the walls of the U.S. Embassy.
The four returned to a
darkened UPI bureau and
began sending out stories using
an emergency generator, re
porting Tuesday’s airlift taking
out the last Americans, the
son was dead.
Cpl. McMahon and Lance Cpl. Judge were the last U.S.
fighting men killed on Vietnam soil.
McMahon, who had been in Vietnam just two weeks,
and Juc* %, a one-month veteran of Saigon, were killed
Monday by rocket and artillery fire on Tan Son Nhut
airport outside Saigon —less than 12 hours before the start
of the final evacution of Americans from Saigon.
The parents of the dead Marines went into seclusion.
The McMahons shut their front door, and bolted it. They
wanted to be alone with their grief.
McMahon came home the last time to Massachusetts to
“I think it will be a long time
before Americans will be able
to talk or write about the war
with some dispassion,” said
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger. “It is clear that the
war did not achieve the
objectives of those who started
the original involvement, nor
the objectives of those who
sought to end that invol
vement.”
“It is clear,” Kissinger said,
surrender of the country today
and the Viet Cong’s entering
Saigon in tanks.
Those remaining behind also
included longtime Vietnamese
staffers who did not want to
leave their homeland and a
British schoolteacher repaying
the hospitality of his hosts in
the Saigon CBS bureau by
making audio reports to the
United States.
Other U.S correspondents
known or believed to still be in
Saigon included three Associat
ed Press reporters, Peter
Arnett, George Esper and Matt
Franjola, and Michael Miner of
the Chicago Sun-Times.
United Press International
Television News hoped to
continue its Saigon coverage
with a correspondent from
Britain’s ITN commercial net
work and a French camera
crew.
Many U.S. news organizations
said Tuesday they presumed
their correspondents had made
it out but were still awaiting
confirmation.
ABC and NBC each kept one
reporter and one camera crew
in Saigon but asked their
names not be published for
their safety.
“that what is being aimed at
(by the Communists) is a
substantial political takeover.”
The United States, he said,
made approaches to Hanoi and
the Provisional Revolutionary
Government. “I think we
received some help from the
Soviet Union in the evacuation
effort.”
The future was unclear.
Kissinger agreed it was fair to
say “diplomatic relations are in
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -
Tom Poole finally found $1,600,
but it came too late for a trip
to Saigon in search of his 6-
year-old, half-Vietnamese
daughter.
“I did get the backing, but
now I can’t get in,” the 27-year
old Vietnam veteran said
Tuesday hours before South
Vietnam surrendered to the
Communists.
Poole, who was divorced from
Christina Marie Poole’s Vietr
namese mother before return
ing to the United States, said a
Memphis man whom he refused
to name gave him money
Monday night for round-trip air
fare.
HELP ALL
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Thomas Neal, a Lutheran
refugee expert who has spent
seven years woflring in Vietr
nam has told the Senate
subcommittee on refugees that
United States humanitarian
efforts in the war-tom country
should go to “helping all people
of Vietnam who need assistan
ce.”
attend the annual Boys Club dinner. He was “Boy of the
Year” in 1971 —the year before he was graduated from
Woburn High School.
McMahon and Judge were part of the 120-Marine U.S.
Embassy security detachment assalgned to the defense
attache office at the Saigon airport. They were the fourth
and fifth men killed in Vietnam since the cease-fire
agreement was signed in Paris in 1973.
Judge joined the Marines last June. He arrived in
Saigon March 23. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Judge,
said they were told he died at 4:45 a.m. EDT Monday.
The parents went into seclusion, but Judge’s brother-in-
abeyance with the government
in South Vietnam.” He said
Thieu would be given asylum if
he sought it, but “the United
States will not recognize an
exile government of South
Vietnam.”
He said Congress had been
asked to provide humanitarian
aid, and that Ford “would
make a later decision as to
what part of that humanitarian
aid could be used in South
Money too late
“I asked him about making
arrangements to pay back the
money,” Poole said, “But he
said, ‘the only payment I want
is a happy ending.’”
Poole had said last week that
a declaration of personal
bankruptcy last year left him
without the credit rating
required for a loan.
After getting the money,
Poole said he had planned to
make airplane reservations for
Saigon Tuesday but changed his
mind after reports Americans
were being evacuated at the
request of the South Viet
namese government.
“Now I just don’t know what
the situation is,” he said. “I
don’t know how the Vietnamese
would feel about an American
coming in.
“I don’t even know if I can
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evolution... becomes clearer.”
Kissinger was asked about
dominoes. “There is no ques
tion that the outcome in
Indochina will have conse
quences not only in Asia, but in
many other parts of the world.
To deny these consequences is
to miss the possibility of
dealing with them.”
Foreign policy, he said, will
be re-examined. Ford has told
get a visa,” he said. “If by
some chance I could go in, I
would certainly want to go.”
Poole, who remained in South
Vietnam after his discharge
from the Army in 1969 to work
for a private company, said his
former wife refused to let the
girl come to the United States
with him in 1972. But he said
Tuesday he now thinks the
mother would let the child
leave.
“She (the daughter) really
looks more American than
Vietnamese,” he said. “I’m
sure when the Communists take
over Saigon they will kill all
American children.”
Poole has since remarried, to
another Vietnamese woman,
and they have two other
children of their own, Sheila
Ann, 4, and Richard Alain, 3.
law, Greg DeSauliners, said young Judge wanted to be a
Marine and wanted to serve in Vietnam.
“This was one of his choices,” DeSauliners said. “I
think there and Australia were his choices.”
Judge was the youngest of three children. McMahon had
two younger brothers. Judge’s father is a postal employe.
McMahon’s father works at a gelatin company and he and
his wife drive school buses.
Officials said it would be six to 12 days before the bodies
of the young Marines are brought home for military
funerals.
leaders in Japan, Korea and
the Philippines that the existing
alliances will stand.
Kissinger said, “I would think
that with relation to other
countries, including Israel, that
no lessons should be drawn by
the enemies of our friends from
the experiences in Vietnam.”
But he would not blame the
people who had made the
decisions for a decade and a
half. “I would think that what
REVISE CONFESSION
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
committee of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S., working on
a new confession of faith for
the predominantly southern
denomination, will ask the
church’s 1975 general assembly
for another year to prepare a
revised draft of the confession.
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