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Location: Washington, WV Posts: 1,757 | Vietnam vets open war crime defense fund
Vietnam vets open war crime defense fund - Yahoo! News Quote:
BROCKTON, Mass. - Gray-haired Patrick Barnes still wears a crew cut and sits ramrod straight in his chair. Before clamping his cell phone shut, he says "Semper Fi" to a buddy instead of "bye."
Barnes, a 58-year-old Marine veteran of Vietnam who earned a Purple Heart for wounds suffered during the 1968 Tet Offensive, is still military through and through. And he knows that in war, things happen "Boom!" — just like that — and triggers are pulled in split-second decisions.
That's why Barnes and fellow Vietnam veterans are starting a legal defense fund for Americans charged with war crimes in
Iraq and
Afghanistan
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