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2015-05-11T11:05:15-04:00 2015-05-11T11:05:15-04:00 Cpl Dennis F. 659299

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I and a few other Marines were invited to breakfast at El Toro MCAS with Westmoreland in August 1968. We had just returned from Vietnam and he had been called to Washington for an ass chewing.

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