To everyone who saw it, the body certainly looked like Guinn, John W., Private First Class, 53756082, U.S. Army. Two of the infantryman's buddies identified the corpse in a paddyfield near Chu Lai after a firefight with the Viet Cong. When morticians in the Elizabethton, Tenn., funeral home opened the casket last week, even Mrs. Blanche Guinn, 54, thought she recognized her 23-year-old son, despite the bandages that partially covered his face. She hung funeral wreaths, framed the telegram notifying her of his death along with a $25 money order he had mailed...
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