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"A Real Good Kid"

Army medic Thomas Cole writes a letter home while recovering from a head wound at the Third Field Hospital in Saigon on Feb. 19, 1966. Cole made national headlines when a photo of him appeared on the cover of Life magazine. That photo is on the cover of this month’s VFW. (Photo by Henri Huet/AP)

PHOTO BY: Henri Huet/AP
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