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Tag: Vietnam in 1969

Hugh Penn of Sandy Springs has lost a lot of the memorabilia he collected on his tour of duty during the Vietnam War, but he says the war will always be a part of his life. He has reflected on it more as he’s gotten older, he said.
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Vietnam veteran recalls firefights, boredom and beer

by Reporter Newspaper Staff November 4, 2010November 4, 2010

By Jason Massad jasonmassad@reporternewspapers.net During his year-long stint in Vietnam in 1969, one of the bloodiest years of the conflict, Hugh Penn learned an important lesson that helped him sleep at night. The calm, collected Air Force veteran from Sandy Springs wasn’t getting many winks when he arrived at Pleiku, a strategically important U.S. air […]

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