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Defending Against the Ambush: Lesson hard learned by a Vietnam soldier
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 4 2020
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We were building schools in poor rural villages to show the Vietnamese our intent to help them. The villagers loved it, we loved our work, but the local Viet Cong desperately tried to destroy us in order to halt our program. They ambushed us with a regularity, so we learned to outsmart them.
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