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Remembering the Troops

Vietnam vets send care packages.

by Jan Schlain

posted 2/16/2010

"We know what it is like to be forgotten," says John Kinzinger. In 1966, at age nineteen, Kinzinger was drafted into the army. Leaving behind his wife and young son, he spent a year in Vietnam as a battalion radio operator in the First Air Cavalry. Now, every five or six weeks, he sends out an email inviting Vietnam vets and their families and friends to help

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