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DANTYLER “I lived in Boston for a while, but it was depressing to me because I had lost my younger brother there in 1972,” remembers Duffin. “Bobby, also a Vietnam veteran, became disillusioned with the government after serving his country and joined the Black Panther Party. He and a friend were gunned down by the Boston Police during an armed robbery atttempt.” Duffin later moved to Indianapolis where he became involved with the V A Outreach Center. “For many years I tried not to think about the war; 1 discovered delayed stress in 1980 while I was in the hospital.” "The VA had diagnosed me as having delayed stress problems back in 1972 but they never told me. I found out when the Community Mental

PAULJORDAN Health Center in Bloomington requested my medical records from VA. “At that time I was having alcohol related problems,” said Tyler, who served with the Marine Corps in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Tyler’s unit was stationed at Khe Sahn in 1968 when North Vietnamese regulars held the small Marine compound under seige for several days. “Only 19 of us got out of that one alive,” Tyler commented. “During Operation Meade River, there was 157 guys in my unit and only 10 of ussurvived.” According to Tyler, he is still suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and has difficulty in getting help from VA.

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BILL DUFFIN According to Tyler, before he went to Vietnam he had never been arrested or had trouble with the police. After returning home his problems with the police began primarily because of alcohol problems. “I found that I dislike police and now I try to avoid any kind of contact with them,” Tyler stated. “I also recent authority.” He married shortly after returning from Vietnam, but his marriage lasted only a short time. Tyler just recently re-married. “I was drinking a lot, and sometimes l‘d get angry at the smallest thing and as a result I ended up divorced from my first wife,” he said. “My initial problem after returning home was dealing with bad paper. Although I was discharged under honorable condition, my DD214 (discharge paper) was flagged because of the numbers code the military uses and employers knew the code,” said Jordan, who served as a medic with the 9th Infantry Division in the Vietnam Delta from 1969 to 1970. Jordan married in 1971 and is now divorced. He blames Vietnam for the breakupof his marriage. “I was in and out of the VA Hospital suffering with drug related problems and Post-Traumatic Stress. The only way I could make it in Nam was to stay high. Since I was a medic 1 had easy access to drugs,” Jordan said. “While in Vietnam, I had a lot of complusion and love for the brothers, both black and white. But I didn’t find that love when I returned to the States. A lot of guys I knew are in the penitentiary, strung out on drugs or dead from over dosing on drugs,” hecontinued. “I spent most of my time in Vietnam in the jungles in search of the enemy. I killed everything that moved. I got so bad my commander made me move to the rear of the sc;uad,” Duffin said. All three men say they are still suffering from flashbacks. “When I first came home my mother said she should take the bed out of my room because I stayed on the floor all the time,” said Jordan. “Oftentimes I still find myself thinking I’m out on a search and destroy mission, especially when I smell diesel fuel.” “I remember when I almost killed a lady friend because I was dreaming I was still in Vietnam,” Tyler added. “I can remember when I used to wake up crawling on the floor with a rifle and a pistol, I still sleep with a pistol next to my bed.” “I don’t own a gun, because if I did, I would probably end up killing someone if they said the wrong thing to me,” commented Duffin. “I turned into a killer while in Vietnam, it changed me. I spent my whole tour in the jungles, with the exception of a month in the hospital with malaria. I don’t relish thinking about the fire fights, the screams, blood or stench of dead bodies that were all around.”

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“They have done things to impact us economically; prime example is the interconnect agreement. We were not allowed to be a part of the interconnect, so here we are with one channel going into 70,000 homes, while they have seven channels serving 150,000 homes. If they had wanted to be fair they would have included us in the interconnect," said Crowley. The Board also recommended that the Cable Franchise Board request a copy of the interconnect agreement and documentation of advertising revenues earned by CEI before and after the interconnect agreement. “The real issue here is will ACI ever come to grips with the fact that they are going to have to sell part of the cable company. They have tried to discredit us by critizing our local programming and trying to make people believe that the 150,000 we receive from them annually is used anyway we want to use it. Most people don’t know that there are strings att ached,’’ Crowley staled. In the meantime, Donald McPherson, director of administration for the city, has warned ACI officials that the City-County Council may have trouble approving the company’s application for franchise amendments if members perceive that American Cable has failed to liveuptoitscontracts. Witnesses CONTINUED FROM PAPE 1A ingan earthquake,” Hehem said. Fire and smoke started pour into the halls as they left the conference room, he said. He tried to go back into the building to find his wife, Joan, who was on the fifth floor, but the smell from the fire forced him to feel his way through the debris in the darkness and go back

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More attention should be focused on the Michael Taylor case, the majority of persons responding to a Recorder poll stated. Readers were asked to respond to the question: "Is the community focusing too much attention on the Michael Taylor case?” The overwhelming majority of callers said no. "The case needs to be looked into further," said one caller. Another noted that the atten-

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Tillman Harpole Post seeking new membership Tillman H. Harpole Post 249 of the American Legion is looking for new members-Honorably discharged veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam Conflict--to help keep and maintain veterans’ benefits, national security, legislative service and participate in the political action committee. The post is located at 2523 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street. For membership information call James Edwards at 923-0874 or JoC Young

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