MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011 (Updated 4:51 am)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW RIVER MARINE CORPS AIR STATION (AP) — A Marine Corps aviator's children are getting an outpouring of help to ensure their future education after his death in Afghanistan.
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Widow of Marine killed in action fighting to make his final wish come true
By: SASHA HORNE
Published: October 14, 2011
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WNCT)- The widow of a Marine killed in Afghanistan is working to make his final wish come true.
“He wanted to be her dad….he was her dad,” said Mary Dudley Just before his sixth deployment with Marine Corps, Staff Sergeant T.J. Dudley filled out all the paperwork to make 13-year-old Taylor, Mary’s daughter from a previous relationship, legally his.
“We started the paperwork a year ago, right before he left for deployment and we found out during the deployment that the courthouse lost the paperwork.”
Back in July, just 17 days before he was due to return home, T.J. was killed in action.
Mary says her husband filed the adoption paperwork at the Onslow county courthouse but that’s where the paper trail went cold.
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