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22 Apr 67
Dear Editor,
To see your buddy step on a VC antipersonnel mine is a hard thing to take but the real scare is when you go back to your base camp and see the smiling villagers all around you and then start to wonder if one of them set it there.
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Sp/4 Rodney D. Baldra had been in country 42 days, serving with the 5th Battalion, 60th Infantry (Mechanized), 9th Infantry Division, operating out of Bear Cat, when he was wounded by a booby trap on 1 April 1967. At the time the Memorial was dedicated in 1985, he was living in Walnut Creek, California, and working as a restaurant consultant.
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