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Lee Riley

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Lee Riley is still not back from Vietnam. When he returned, he went straight to the VA and told them he was not the same person who left. Besides the PTSD there was the Agent Orange, the Camp Lejeune water and a slew of related health issues. But the reunions of his unit give him something to hold on to. (5:02)

Dana Averill

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All he knew about Vietnam was from John Wayne in The Green Berets but he knew he wanted some excitement in his life. Dana Averill enlisted in the Marines in 1968 and he got his wish. (4:40)

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Within a week of arriving in Vietnam, Dana Averill's unit lost several Marines KIA. He wasn't feeling good about the math considering he was going to be there for a year. What did I get myself into? But that smoothed out as he got acclimated. (4:57)

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There was very little down time. You were always on patrol or setting up an ambush or on guard. When Dana Averill did have a breather, nothing was so sweet as some mail from back home. (4:08)

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Dana Averill was wounded twice in Vietnam. He describes those incidents in which he received shrapnel from land mines. They were traumatic, not because of what happened to him but because of what happened to the other Marines who were wounded. (Caution: Graphic Material) (8:02)

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Dana Averill was in the rear waiting to go home and he felt guilty. His guys were still out there. When he got home, he was very fortunate to not experience the vitriol from anti-war protestors directed at some servicemen returning from Vietnam. He did have a smart mouth buddy whose greeting teed him off. (3:26)

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Was it worth it? Dana Averill is not sure if Vietnam was but he's proud of his tour and feels that no one who was there should feel ashamed of what he did. He had good leadership and good buddies there and now he has the reunions. (4:04)

John Bates

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Nothing can live through that. John Bates watched as a massive air strike hit the NVA position in front of him. What he didn't know is that they had a plan for that and one of them would send him to the rear with a hole through his chest. (6:10)

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John Bates was recuperating from a wound in Da Nang and he was tired of the place. He managed to scrounge some boots and some pants but he couldn't come up with a shirt. Undaunted, he set out to rejoin his unit. (7:09)

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John Bates had just recovered from a gunshot wound but the NVA wasn't done with him yet. When he was on a listening post, he saw them creeping toward his position and readied a hand grenade. Before he left Vietnam he would have two more Purple Hearts. (9:21)