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Article: Wandering souls: a chance encounter on a steamy jungle trail begins a 40-year odyssey for tormented spirits seeking peace and redemption.(Excerpt)
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- December 1, 2009
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TWO DAYS BEFORE he would kill Hoang Ngoc Dam, 1st Lieutenant Homer Steedly Jr. went out in the field to deliver payroll to his company, new briefcase firmly in hand. He began the day, March 17, 1969, by catching a lift from Camp Enari on a helicopter flying food and ammo out to Fire Support Base 20, about 20 kilometers northwest, at the edge of the Plei Trap Valley. As the executive officer of Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Homer's system was to pay the men in the rear areas at the battalion base camps first and then to make his way out to the troops at the firebases, ...