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Born. To Staff Sergeant Matthew Charles McKeon, 31, Marine drill instructor whose sentence for leading an unscheduled night march on which six recruits were drowned is under review (TIME, Aug. 13), and Elizabeth Evelyn Wood (Betty) McKeon, 28: a second daughter, third child; in Beaufort, S.C. Name: Bridget Alice. Weight...
...civilian engineer on Wake Island, I had a ringside seat from which to observe a demonstration of basic guts by a group of U.S. marines fresh out of boot camp. Sergeant McKeon may have shown poor judgment, but that's not sufficient reason for busting an obviously dedicated man out of the Corps with a bad-conduct discharge...
...appalled by the action of Sergeant Matthew McKeon, but I felt the Corps would certainly give him his just punishment. The Corps still had a chance to prove itself. Then came the disgraceful verdict. Such a hue and cry about the poor Sergeant! Isn't the drunken, sadistic murder of six supposedly superior youngsters-isn't that bad conduct...
What the Secretary of the Navy and the review board must now decide is whether Matt McKeon has been punished for the bad judgment that was peculiarly his, or whether he is paying the price for a timehonored, sometimes brutal but consistently effective system of military training...
North Carolina's Wilmington Morning Star (circ. 17,866) went to press with a front-page picture of four Marine witnesses in the court-martial of Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As soon as the paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel...