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2024-04-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Vietnam veteran, 68, with dementia died from being body-slammed by Alabama police officer after mistakenly trying to enter home he believed was his own

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-03 00:15|| || Front Page|| [191 views ] Top

#1 Very sad.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-03 01:49|| 2024-04-03 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree, very sad. But. I hit 75 recently. I was an 11B4P in RVN from 68 through 70. He was 68. The math doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone help me here?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-04-03 05:53|| 2024-04-03 05:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Several phone screens down from the misleading headline: Grant died almost six months later on July 24, 2020, aged 69.

"You mean, like ~~Democrats~~ journolists?"

Posted by Unose Uleresing8817 2024-04-03 07:01|| 2024-04-03 07:01|| Front Page Top

#4 If he were born in 1956, and enlisted at age 18, he would have had to have been in Vietnam in 74 or 75. That's pretty late in the conflict. Who knows Whiskey Mike.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-03 07:09|| 2024-04-03 07:09|| Front Page Top

#5 It is a tragedy.
Perhaps they mean "Vietnam-era vet". They are journalists after all, bless their hearts.

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-03 09:12|| 2024-04-03 09:12|| Front Page Top

#6 It is remotely possible. I'm 66. Saigon fell when I was a senior in high school. Remember it well. Two adzwhole classmates (Karl and Fritz IKYN) paraded a VC (they said) flag through the halls.

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