Vietnam War Picture: Staff Sergeant Ermalinda Salazar Holding Young Children

(Picture courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

Saigon, South Vietnam. Staff Sergeant Ermalinda Salazar, a woman Marine, has been nominated for the 1970 Unsung Heroine Award presented annually by the Ladies Auxillary to the veterans of foreign wars. Staff Sergeant Salazar, determined to help the children of the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Vietnam in her off-duty hours, holds two of the youngsters. (June 1970)

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