Macomb County news   |   Marine burial heads to court Parents should settle it, judge says June 21, 2005 BY NATE TRELA FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER "Please bury me next to some trees that have good shade. I hate the stark fields of graveyards. Mark my gravestone with usual brew-ha but include one word center stone -- MARINE." These words, written by Lance Cpl. Allan Klein in an October letter to a friend, could not have been more clear to his dad. Manfred Klein thinks the 34-year-old Marine from Clinton Township would have wanted to be buried in Croswell, a small city in the eastern Thumb where his grandmother had a farm and he camped with friends. "He loved that area," said Manfred Klein, from Monroe. "He spent so much time there." But her son's words mean something different to Rae Oldaugh of Roseville. Allan was proud of his military servic

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