Private First Class Albert Randell Haynes, Served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, United States Army Vietnam.
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER - AUGUST 14, 1968
GI on TV, Then He Is Killed
Mrs. Mabel Haynes, of West Philadelphia, made it a point to watch every television news-reel possible because more often than not, they carried films of the fighting in Vietnam.
She had a special interest. Her son, Pfc. Albert R. Haynes, 20, was with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam and she knew that ever since his departure last March, he was in the thick of the fighting.
Last Thursday, at 7 A.M., her patience had its reward. There was her son, "big as life, his face right in the camera," filmed during a patrol. Just the day before-on her birthday, August 7-she had received a letter from him, wishing her happy returns and promising another letter "very soon."
But the word she received this week was not from her son. It was from the Defense Department.
Pfc. Haynes was killed Saturday by a booby trap while on patrol.
Mrs. Haynes and her husband, William Haynes Sr., a clothing shop worker, with her other sons, Air Force Sgt. William Haynes Jr., 21, and Samuel, 10, sat around their home on N. Ramsey st. near Race on Tuesday and recalled Albert's big ambition. He wanted to go into the clothing business too, but as a manufacturer.
A graduate of West Philadelphia High School, he had entered the service last September. When he finished his enlistment, he had told his father, he planned to join him in the shop to learn the business.
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Private First Class Albert Randell Haynes, Served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, United States Army Vietnam.
A True Hero , God bless you dear Brave Soldier 3 p=""
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER - AUGUST 14, 1968
GI on TV, Then He Is Killed
Mrs. Mabel Haynes, of West Philadelphia, made it a point to watch every television news-reel possible because more often than not, they carried films of the fighting in Vietnam.
She had a special interest. Her son, Pfc. Albert R. Haynes, 20, was with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam and she knew that ever since his departure last March, he was in the thick of the fighting.
Last Thursday, at 7 A.M., her patience had its reward. There was her son, "big as life, his face right in the camera," filmed during a patrol. Just the day before-on her birthday, August 7-she had received a letter from him, wishing her happy returns and promising another letter "very soon."
But the word she received this week was not from her son. It was from the Defense Department.
Pfc. Haynes was killed Saturday by a booby trap while on patrol.
Mrs. Haynes and her husband, William Haynes Sr., a clothing shop worker, with her other sons, Air Force Sgt. William Haynes Jr., 21, and Samuel, 10, sat around their home on N. Ramsey st. near Race on Tuesday and recalled Albert's big ambition. He wanted to go into the clothing business too, but as a manufacturer.
A graduate of West Philadelphia High School, he had entered the service last September. When he finished his enlistment, he had told his father, he planned to join him in the shop to learn the business.
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