{"id":2936,"date":"2012-05-21T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2012-05-17T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:48:07","slug":"the-last-viet-nam-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/05\/the-last-viet-nam-victim.html","title":{"rendered":"The Last Viet Nam Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a tragic story sent in by a subscriber.\u00a0 Sometimes we tend to forget the true horrors of war.<\/em><\/p>\n

MICK Berrigan went to war in 1967 – a bright spark who loved a drink and the girls. The shell of a man who came back injured never recovered from his private hell.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/a> for the article.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of The Herald Sun<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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