Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Warner, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale attended a ceremony in 1969. In the photograph, Secretary of State William P. Rogers and General Creighton Abrams listen to members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, explain recon patrols in the northern sector of I Corps during the Vietnam War.

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