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8 Dec 71
Dear Soldier Friend,
Hi. My name is Roger Barber. I belong to Den 2 Pack 79. I’m sorry you had to fight in the war. I don’t like to fite do you? Please! Watch out. Have you had snow yet?
your friend Roger David Barber (age 8)
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Sp/4 Frank A. Russo, serving with D Battery, 71st Air Defense Artillery, II Field Force, based at Phan Thiet, from February-December 1971, received letters from an eight-year-old pen pal, Roger Barber from Conesus, New York. He and his wife, Maria, live on Staten Island, New York, with their daughter, Denise. Frank currently works in the information technology department for Entergy Corporation as a software quality assurance coordinator. Of his time in Vietnam he writes: “Hard to believe it happened so long ago, and yet the memories are still so vivid.”
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