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'Cryless' by Dr. Gerald Nieters

Vietnam memoir brings the horror home

By BILL POTEAT

Editor, THE PAPER

Posted 3/25/23

On July 8, 1959, Major Dale Ruis and Master Sgt. Chester Ornand were killed in combat in South Vietnam, the first Americans to fall in what came to be known as the Vietnam War. Nearly 16 years later, …

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