Selasa, 11 April 2017

Voices | Walt Sides, Rolling Thunder

In 1973, when the first prisoners of war were freed by North Vietnam and returned to the United States, many veterans believed that the actual number of POWs was much higher. One of those veterans was Walt Sides, a gold medal marksman in Marine Corps competition who served two tours in Vietnam, one as an …

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