Vietnam's heavy toll

Vietnam's heavy toll

(EXCERPT) Chris Richards / Staff Casino employee Joe White rubs
against the wall to make a copy of the name of his cousin Lee Marvin
Capers, who was killed at age 21.

Chris Richards / Staff Vietnam veteran Henry Brown Otter searches for
the name of a fallen friend on the traveling memorial.

Vets view pals' names on wall and ponder Iraq, by Carol Ann Alaimo
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

At 64, Henry Brown Otter still has the military bearing of a Marine.
It is not in his nature to weep in public.

He tried hard to keep a stiff upper lip Monday as he stood in a Tucson
parking lot gazing at the names of 58,000-plus comrades killed in
Vietnam.

The tears came anyway. There was too much pain, too much loss - too
much guilt that he survived when so m...

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