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18 Mar 68
Dear Tom,
…when we got to Chu Lai there was just the three of us and what was left of Doug. He was dead before he was loaded on the chopper but they kept giving him respiration and heart massage…Well, that’s it. No heroes like on TV. Everybody is just trying to stay alive….
Take care,
Dennis
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Cpl. Dennis W. Lane, from Brooklyn, New York, landed in Vietnam on 19 December 1967 with Company A, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, which would become part of the Americal Division operating in I Corps. He was killed by fragments from a mine explosion on 21 May 1968. He was 21 years old.
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