Private First-Class Abel Glasse August 3, 1972 It took a lifetime to make it home. Two hours from Da Nang to Tan Son Nhut, near Saigon, in a Bell Huey helicopter that had a floor pockmarked with bullet holes. Four and a half hours on the plane to Tokyo, and now, the endless flight to Fairbanks in a different C-130 but with the same crew. The plan was to take another military hop to Oakland and then fly commercial to the East Coast. All to get from the place where the killing never ended to the place where I could

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