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spike jones

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8. While in the army, I became friends with DB who was a good time, happy go lucky guy.
Tue Jun 22, 2021, 10:49 AM
Jun 2021

He was sent to Nam and I was not. Later I heard through a mutual friend that after he came back, he was changed to a sad guy that never smiled. Within seven months of returning from the war, he killed himself. His name is not on the wall.
Another Vietnam vet told me if you don’t understand that then, apparently, you have never seen what two grenades do to a room full of children.

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