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You can see the photographs Danny Snellgroves took of Paul at Danny's website: https://www.dcsnellgroves.com/Iraq/Col-Paul-K-Schreiber-Dutch 

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Col. Paul Schreiber, Marine, Mummer 
By JOHN F. MORRISON morrisjphillynews.com 

Paul K. Schreiber was a highly regarded Marine officer, but he loved to come back to Philly every New Year's Day to march with the rowdy Froggy Carr Comic Brigade in the Mummers Parade. 
Although  Schreiber grew up in Mayfair, he spent a lot of time in the famous Two Street neighborhood in South Philadelphia, where his mother came from and relatives still live, and he relished the Mummer ambience that pervades the area.
But somehow his credentials as a Marine and a Swarthmore College graduate seemed incompatible with Froggy Carr, a wench outfit and one of the parade's wildest aggregations. 
But Schreiber loved it. 
"He loved to have fun," said Joe Pooler, his uncle and longtime friend, who lives in the 2nd Street neighborhood and whose sons are Mummers. 
Schreiber was so highly thought of in the Marine Corps that he was promoted from lieutenant colonel to full colonel on his deathbed. He died Monday in the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland with some 25 family members and friends crowded into his room. He was 47. 
His promotion, approved by Marine Commandant Gen. Michael W. Hagee, was administered by his brother-in-law, Michael Blaine , a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, who told Schreiber, "Now you outrank me." 
Schreiber had been in Iraq since last April. He had been sent there by the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., to study ways to reconstruct the country. He returned home at Christmas for a two -week leave and became critically ill with a blood clot in the bowel.
Schreiber's wife, the former Gretchen Winans, said her husband was able to say goodbye to everybody. 
Their son, Kevin, had hurried to his father's bedside from Tennessee where he was traveling with his high school band. 
"He said many Marines don't get a chance to say goodbye to their families before they die," his wife said. "He said he felt blessed." 
Paul Schreiber, whose nickname was "Dutch," was born in Philadelphia to Paul and Ellen Schreiber. He graduated from Father Judge High School, where he played end on the football team. 
He also played football at Swarthmore College and excelled academically. 
It was his brother-in- law, Mike Blaine, who inspired him to join the Marines, but he was turned down repeatedly because of a knee injury suffered playing football.
He worked as an administrative assistant to former U.S. Rep. Charles Dougherty for a time, and in the same capacity for former U.S. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker. When Schweiker left the Senate, Schreiber moved on to work for Sen. Jeremiah A. Denton, of Alabama, retired Navy admiral who had been a prisoner of war in Vietnam. 
He worked on defense -related issues for Denton, who was urging the rebuilding of the Navy, including recommissioning battleships.
When Schreiber told Denton of his dream of becoming a Marine , the senator contacted the then-Marine Commandant Gen. P. X. Kelly. "When he went to take his physical, the captain in charge said, 'You've been recommended by General Kelly. You're OK. You pass,' "Pooler said. 
Schreiber participated in several "floats," missions in which a detachment of Marines is taken by ship to various world trouble spots to be deployed if necessary. 
One of his assignments was as executive officer of the Marine detachment on the USS Iowa, one of the battleships recommissioned at Denton's urging. 
He was an instructor at the Amphibious War School at Quantico, Va. 
Schreiber was selected to represent the Marine Corps at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a public policy research group in Washington comprised of one officer from each of the services and civilian experts. 
"It was a great honor for him," his wife said. 
She and Schreiber met as students at Swarthmore. 
Source Citation: "Paul Kevin Schreiber- Obituary- Phila Daily News- 29 Apr 2004- pg 30" Newspapers.com, Philadelphia Daily News, April 29, 2004, https://www.newspapers.com/article/philadelphia-daily-news-paul-kevin-schre/28544732/


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