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Reunion for Vietnam POW Returns Home to Family
Michigan soldier Thomas H. Van Putten, 21, returned from 14 months in a Viet Cong prison camp and was greeted by his parents in Caledonia. He learned his high school sweetheart had married another man after his absence. He weighed 121 pounds at rescue after 18 days in the jungle near Cambodia and is expected to remain at Great Lakes Naval Hospital for several days before home release.
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