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Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867, at the Old Hickory Plantation near Lacour, Louisiana, in Pointe Coupee Parish. [3] He was the son of Confederate army captain Ovide Lejeune (1820–1889) [4] He attended the preparatory program at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from September 1881 to April 1884, leaving to prepare for the entrance exam for the United States Naval Academy. [5]
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A black shield with one five-pointed star and an Indian head with full war bonnet was selected. It is said that the black was for mourning and respect for their casualties, the shield for defense, and the star for the Second Division Commander, Brigadier General John A. Lejeune, and the Indian for General Lejeune's nickname "Old Indian ...
On July 28, 1918, Marine Corps Major General John A. Lejeune (Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, named 1942) assumed command of the 2nd Division. He returned to the front in August, rejoining the 5th Marines, and saw action in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives ( Champagne ) where he was wounded for the third time, shot through the neck ...
Jerry Ensminger and Mike Partain, two national leaders of the effort to help Camp Lejeune victims, explain what happened at the U.S. Marine base. 'A dog fight for the truth': 2 national advocates ...
Nov. 8—From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, water at and around Camp Lejeune, a Marine base on the coast of North Carolina, was contaminated with numerous carcinogenic and harmful chemicals. In ...
*John A. Lejeune 2 1924 Washington, DC *John A. Lejeune 3 1925 Philadelphia, PA *John A. Lejeune 4 1926 Cleveland, OH *John A. Lejeune 5 1927 Erie, PA *John A. Lejeune 6 1928 Dallas, TX *John A. Lejeune 7 1929 Cincinnati, OH *John A. Lejeune *Wendell C. Neville 8 1930 St Louis, MO *W. Karl Lations 9 1931 Buffalo, NY *W. Karl Lations 1932
More than 93,000 people have filed claims under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which allows people to seek a payout for injuries caused by exposure to toxic water at the Marine Corps Base from mid ...