Mike Barnicle: Pennsylvania, and the Anonymous Few Dying Half a World Away
Apr 21, 2008 - PHILADELPHIA - I spent a morning last week looking for Francis Xavier Kane on his anniversary even though I knew he was gone, lost all those years ago, exactly 40, when he was killed April 21, 1968 a few miles west of a lethal place called Quang Tri City in a country called Vietnam. He was a proud member of the Marine Corps, 18 years old, one of 646 dead from Philadelphia, when he lost his life…

