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By Andy McNab

SOG Kontum: Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968–1969

By Joe Parnar & Bob Dumont

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Skala" data-source="post: 62124" data-attributes="member: 38569">So you will never ever see this but,  I visited a replica Vietnam War memorial in Nebraska. I randomly selected a name which was yours and decided to look you up. I can not find much about you other than what is posted here. I visited the actual memorial several years ago and did not have the same feeling looking at the replica. I was more enraged visiting the replica for a few reasons. 1. The placard indicated the granite was sourced from the same quarry as the memorial in Washington. From Bangalore India.... Not even a war memorial can be made from materials in the United States. 2. I purchased some tools a week earlier. Milwaukee brand from Home Depot. It broke on the first use. Fished the packaging out of the trash and flipped it over to see... "MADE IN VIETNAM" what irks me is that an iconic American tool brand that used to be very reliable now being made in a country we sent 59,000+ service members to die in, making a tool capitalizing on the namesake made by American workers and marketing them as if they are still being made here in the US but are now being made in a country that was a former enemy. You sir sacrificed your life so industrialists can make tools in a communist nation for next to nothing. Not worth it. Not even by gorilla math we use to balance our books now...... Your life was wasted and I am ashamed.........I am so angered right now I can not even type. I hope there is something on the other side of this thing and if there is I hope to meet you.........Tell you how much I appreciate what you did and went though for an ungrateful nation but a grateful citizen.</blockquote>

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