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For U.S. grunts who served 12 or 13 months in Vietnam no word can describe the particular terror and misery of that war like “contact.” For REMF POGs, War was hell; but for grunts, contact was a motherf__ker, to use the crude argot of the infantrymen. Oddly enough, both sides sought contact to achieve theirContinue reading “War is hell, but contact is a …”