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Thank you Janice for your kind words.
I was in a reserve hospital unit
In 1968 we were activated here is that word again (no not my DNA this time)and sent to Qui Nhon South Vietnam
Our mission was to care for Viet Cong and North Vietnam prisoners of war in a prison hospital. They received excellent humane care as good as the Americans got. Another reason to feel really proud to be American.
In the afternoon I would go to a Catholic Hospital run by the Medical Mission Sisters of Philadelphia. Here I treated all kinds of ailments. Unfortunately because many Vietnamese babies had not been vaccinated we saw the horrors of polio and tetanus conditions which have been wiped out here in the us.
Parasites and bubonic plague and leprosy and tuberculosis were some conditions that I saw and dealt with.
150 people were in our unit there were zero casualties except those do to drunkenness and traffic accidents.
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