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Priscilla Mason, widow of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason, shakes hands with James Nicholson, former secretary of Veterans Affairs, and thanks him and Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, for their help in getting her husband's name added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 7, 2008. Mason died May 28, 2006, of complications from wounds he received Feb. 28, 1968, during the Tet Offensive.

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Priscilla Mason, widow of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason, shakes hands with James Nicholson, former secretary of Veterans Affairs, and thanks him and Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, for their help in getting her husband's name added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 7, 2008. Mason died May 28, 2006, of complications from wounds he received Feb. 28, 1968, during the Tet Offensive.

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