Father and son remembered for sacrafice

When her nephew joined the Marines, his mother, Eunice, begged him not to go to Vietnam. But he wanted to connect with the place where his father had died, and no one could dissuade him, DelRossi said. Lance Corporal Richard Fitzgibbon III, at left, who graduated from Weymouth High School in 1962,was killed in combat on Sept. 7, 1965, in Quang Tin. He was 21.
Courtesy of Alice DelRossi
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By Linda Morgan Bliss, Globe Staff
When her nephew joined the Marines, his mother, Eunice, begged him not to go to Vietnam. But he wanted to connect with the place where his father had died, and no one could dissuade him, DelRossi said. Lance Corporal Richard Fitzgibbon III, at left, who graduated from Weymouth High School in 1962,was killed in combat on Sept. 7, 1965, in Quang Tin. He was 21.