United States Military Academy Class of 1959

Proudly Remembers Our Fallen Classmate

U. S. Army Captain

Marlin Eugene McCahan

Born on March 10, 1936

Killed in an airplane crash in Vietnam on June 24, 1964

“Grip hands, though it be from the shadows

While we swear as you did of yore

Or living or dying to honor

The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps.”

Done at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C, on the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand and four; and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth; and of our Alma Mater the two hundred and second.