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Memorial Day, May 26th 2008
Freedom FightersRalph PetersOriginally printed in The New York PostNovember 11, 2003They looked so old. That was the thing that struck me. Men in their late thirties, they looked at least ten—sometimes twenty—years older. And they were the survivors.I was a lieutenant when I reported in to the 1st Battalion of the 46th Infantry. As an enlisted man in the bitter peace of the 1970s, I had already seen the wreckage of Vietnam, the noncommissioned officers so badly shot up that they could no longer ...
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