Marine killed in Vietnam to be honored

Marine killed in Vietnam to be honored

(EXCERPT) By Bill Carey Berkshire Eagle Staff

DALTON -- A new U.S. Marine Reserve Training Center at Westover Air
Reserve Base in Chicopee will be dedicated today to Lt. Michael J.
Casey, who was killed in action in Vietnam 36 years ago. Casey grew up
in Dalton and Hinsdale.

An opening ceremony and ribbon-cutting has been scheduled for 10 a.m.
at the training center, which is located at 100 Marine Way on the
base. The building will house personnel from Marine Air Support
Squadron-6, Marine Wing Support Squadron-472 and veterans, or prior
service, recruiters.

Moved here as a child

Michael Casey was born in Savannah, Ga., but moved to Dalton as a
young child and later to Hinsdale. He was the second-oldest of eight
children.

Casey married the former Janice Hunter of Dalton in 1966, and the
couple had one child, Michael Jr., who was born in February 1967. The
same year that his son was born, Casey graduated from the University
of Massachusetts with an engineering degree.

He was a talented football player at UMass and received offers from
three professional teams, his brother, Dav...

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