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17 Sep 69
Red,
…Anyone over here who walks through elephant grass should get a Purple Heart. Imagine grass eight to fifteen feet high so thick as to cut visibility to one yard, razor-sharp edges...Imagine walking through it while all around you are men who want to kill you. You’d be amazed at how much a man can age on one patrol…
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Sp/4 George T. Olsen, a son of New York City and a graduate of St. John’s University (then in Brooklyn, New York), arrived in Vietnam in August 1969 and served as a Ranger with Company G, 75th Infantry, operating in the area around Chu Lai in I Corps. He was killed in action on 3 March 1970. He was 23 years old.
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