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kiva

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15. I know about Kent State.

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #12)

Sat May 4, 2013, 06:26 PM

May 2013

But several here seem to not know that many soldiers in Vietnam were drafted or enlisted a step ahead of the draft - if we are talking victims that died that day, they belong on the list.

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