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  • Vietnam veteran full of life despite nine months of torture (See update in #90)

    11/11/2006 7:25:38 AM PST · by WestTexasWend · 155 replies · 5,093+ views
    Lubbock Avalanche-Journal ^ | Saturday, November 11, 2006 | Ray Westbrook
    Clarence Lee of Shallowater, a veteran with four tours in Vietnam to his credit, completed 15 years in the Marine Corps the hard way. "The last tour was 14 months long, because that's when I got captured," he said. Lee can stand with a crutch, and moves about with a wheelchair or motorized scooter because of permanent injuries inflicted when he was a prisoner of war. He attributes his survival of nine months of torture to help from God. Lee, now in his 60s, was a helicopter pilot during the war and received five Purple Heart medals while fighting the...