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Saturday, May 23rd, 2015
Photo by Shelley Grieshop/The Daily Standard

Vern Eichler, Celina, reads one of several telegrams sent to his parents in 1967 to inform them he had been shot in Vietnam and remained on the "very seriously ill" list.

Related online story:
Local veteran's war wounds still linger years later
Vern Eichler's life changed forever when he left his hometown in God's country and landed in the jungles of Vietnam.
He will always bear a reminder of the half dozen sniper bullets that ravaged his body and still cause him pain almost 48 years later, he said. [More]
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