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COL Washington Sanchez, Jr. – “I took two bullets in my leg”

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Washington Sanchez, Jr. describes leaving college, joining the Army as a commisioned officer, and being sent to a field artillery unit in Vietnam, where he was shot twice in the leg.


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