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Wesley fought in Hue during the Tet Offensive. Spending 18 months in Vietnam altogether, he was even a tunnel rat for 3 months. Wes survived the war without any cut on his skin, just a bout of malaria. He overcame "the fear factor" by thinking of his father, "I always felt that he was with me, you know." Wesley's two brothers and sisters are all dead, thanks to decades of bad living that included drug and alcohol addictions, jail stints and, with the sister, even working as a street walker. Wesley, on the hand, has never been in trouble, and at age 66, is still working remodeling homes.



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