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During the course of our conversation I learned he was an executive with a casino operation in the US and had immigrated in the late 70's from Saigon.
We further established that we had been on opposite sides of the US/Vietnam conflict and had more than likely been firing our weapons at each other during the Tet Offensive in January of 1968.
We both had too many details of the battle near Tan Son Nhut Air Base for it to be any form of coincidence.
Tet Offensive
When we arrived at Houston, he bought me a meal and we became friends. We are still in touch today.
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I have difficulty sharing what we did while I was in the US Navy. I served aboard a "research" submarine 40 years ago. My wife has figured some of it out by simply reading and being aware. But I swore allegiance to my CO that I would never divulge the nature of our missions. "I can neither confirm nor deny."
amazing how small the world is
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