An emptiness surrounds Janet Hall Meadows' memory of the brave brother she lost 26 years ago.
“I have no closure,” Mrs. Meadows, who is 47 and lives in Tollesboro, Ky., says. “I have no grave I can visit.”
But she has a 16-year-old son named Kenton who is as tall and slender as the uncle he never knew. “He looks like Gary so much,” Mrs. Meadows says.
Gary Lee Hall
Gary Lee Hall of Covington joined the Marine Corps soon after graduating from Holmes High School in 1974. Less than a year later the 18-year-old private first class was among more than 200 Marines sent by President Gerald Ford to rescue the 40-man crew of the SS Mayaguez, a U.S. merchant ship seized by Cambodian Khmer Rouge troops.
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