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Vietnam Zippos

It was the Age of Aquarius. The American Forces Vietnam Network broadcast 24 hours a day from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. Songs from the Summer of Love, anthems of the 60s counterculture, played alongside the mainstream "Ballad of the Green Berets." Whether they came from Puerto Rico or Tennessee, were Yankees, Catholics, Latinos, Afro-Americans, doves or hawks, lifers or draftees, surfers...

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