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To Post Everlasting: Douglas White, Remembering America’s Heroes
To Post Everlasting: Douglas White, Remembering America’s Heroes
(EXCERPT) chemist, hero in Vietnam, By Betty Barnacle Mercury News Despite heavy gunfire, Douglas Lloyd White left cover in Vietnam to pull a seriously wounded Army buddy to safety. He won the Silver Star and Bronze Star for his bravery. Mr. White, a Santa Clara Valley resident since 1959, also won the Purple Heart because he was hit in the face and leg as he saved the other man's life. Last Monday , 35 years after that Tet offensive battle, Mr. White died at 57 of skin cancer his wife, Annette, is sure was related to the shrapnel that was embedded in his face so long ago. The cancer, diagnosed in mid-2001, started in Mr. White's left cheek and spread into his ear. ``It was on the same side of his face in the cheek where he was wounded,'' Annette White said. Mr. White had a large scar on his right leg where military doctors removed a big piece of shrapnel. But his wife said a much smaller piece that pierced his face was not removed. Although she told his current doctors about her fair-skinned husband's war wounds, she said, they were unable to verify her theory that shrapnel was what caused the skin cancer they fought with chemotherapy, radiation and seven surgeries. Mr. White, a chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park for 30 years, was born in Colorado in the same small town of Hotchkiss where his father, Lloyd Leonard White, wa... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 13 Oct 2003, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercuryne...al/7001978.htm --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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