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Article: Vietnam veterans battle a new enemy.(TYPE II DIABETES)
- Article from:
- DAV Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Disabled American Veterans. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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September 1968, the Republic of Vietnam, somewhere near Pleiku: The young private first class stopped filling sandbags used to reinforce his fighting position and scanned the sky trying to spot the airplane he heard droning in the distance. Then he saw it, silver and grey in the early morning light. The soldier wiped sweat from his forehead and the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand as the plane banked and came in low over the jungle canopy and scrub bordering the road in and out of the region.
As the pilot leveled off, thin clouds of spray came from under the wings of the Fairchild C-123 Provider. The spray widened and all but disappeared as the ...