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' 0Lossar’I)iion,ight-willningbyare i anyltry-put the rash al-ivere obil-E theision oard s air lieve ight-ntainBALTIMORE; Md. (Special)— Serving in Vietnam was worth the loss of an e'ye to a Baltimore soldier now pome after two months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.First Lt. Bradley J. Snyder says he believes in what he was doing in Vietnam.“They need, pur help. It’s hard to see people .actually suffering, and not free, not able to do what, they want.-.-“The place,©GUld be a wonderful place to live, if democracy would set in and they would get themselves straightened out. It’s a beautiful country.“If we can stay over there long enough and persevere, if we can make, dime no factor in our plans as the Viet Cong make time no factor, then we can win,” he says.Wounded Ehster Monday 35 miles southwfest1 of Da Nang, Snyder lost an! eye and suffered some hearing-damage when a bullet or piec£ of shrapnel entered the right’front of his helmet, driving fragments into his right eye, scoring a bloody semicircle around, his scalp and left through the re^r;. of his helmet He’s waiting to get an artificial eye, to have his hearing treated and to see if the Army keeps him. He spent seven months with the 4th Troop of the 3d Armored C$v. Sq, of the Republic of Vietnam and he likes the outfit.“If I spoke the language fluently, I wouldn’t Jfnd fighting with them anytime,” he says:A 1962 graduate of The Citadel, Snyder, 25, says that if the Army’ discharges him as medically unfit he’ll go back to school and get a master’s degree.Now he’s spending as much time as he can with his wife, Lorene, and their two children, Mary Kimberly, 2and Heather Marie, 1.STAR!APO San Francisco 96503Published daily; ?2.50 pci* month. Second-class postage paid at San Francisco, Gal.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Fri, Aug 20, 1965
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