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The Blue Flower

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7. Abou that

Reply to Voice for Peace (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 11, 2012, 08:08 PM

Mar 2012

My boyfriend in '68 was due to go to Vietnam as a USMC 2nd Lt. He had one of those cysts. He wanted to serve so badly, he had it removed surgically. Then he went. Spent a year as a platoon leader and came home with a Purple Heart. What I'm saying is that it was a piss-poor excuse not to serve.

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