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To be brief, I went
back a few years--

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and I went with a
friend to New Mexico.

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And we went to the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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As I told one of the
classes this morning,

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I came across a-- still a
young man-- he was probably

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about 19 when he was in
Vietnam, with a cane,

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and tremendous scars
across his head.

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He had been operated
on for tumors.

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And I suppose you're familiar
with Agent Orange that

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was spread across
the jungle and plains

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to exfoliate the jungle to kill
the leaves so that people could

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see who to bomb and stuff.

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So literally, he had been
around Agent Orange seriously,

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and had serious tumors.

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And the other thing
that was strange

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that I'm still trying to figure
out is that he had gone to live

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or lives in some
place in Mexico.

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And it's hard for me to fathom
why somebody blonde, blue-eyed

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would go live there, and tend
to think that it's because maybe

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he's accepted over there.

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But who knows.

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"At the New Mexico
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,

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the doctors failed to
banish Vietnam forever

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when they removed the
tumors from his brain.

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Jack had centipedes
crawl out of his dreams

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and tread down his
forehead, nearly

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tumbling into his blue eyes.

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Unlike the devil who went
back to hell after the war,

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home for him is now a
village somewhere in Mexico.

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The curse of a country
that endeavored

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to paint the jungle a
resplendent orange."

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