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3 Nov 68

Dear Merle,

…I find myself curiously suspended from sides or causes and can only feel the human loss and terror which can never be measured in pretty medals….Humans can be such damned fools….

My love to you and the urchin, Rob
Sp/4 John R. (“Rob”) Riggan was assigned to Company D, 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, based at Lai Khe, from September 1968-September 1969. He is the author of Free Fire Zone (W. W. Norton & Company, 1984) and is currently working on two new manuscripts. He and his wife live in Rowe, Massachusetts.

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