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ptsd Triggers - Vietnam Veterans, Discharged Under Cloud, File Suit Saying Trauma Was Cause
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By JAMES DAO
Published: December 2, 2012
"NEW HAVEN In the summer of 1968, John Shepherd Jr. enlisted in the Army, figuring that the draft would get him anyway. By January 1969, he was in the Mekong Delta, fighting with the Ninth Infantry Division.
Within a month, his patrol was ambushed, and Mr. Shepherd responded by tossing a hand grenade into a bunker that killed several enemy soldiers. The Army awarded him a Bronze Star with a valor device, one of its highest decorations."
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Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.
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