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Jack Dragoni

Veterans News and Views

Jack Dragoni attended Boston College and served in the U.S. Army in Berlin and Vietnam. He resides in Chaffee, Missouri.

Veterans Day, and the taste of freedom

Thursday, November 5, 2015

When I was in Vietnam, I bought a Zippo cigarette lighter and had it engraved with a popular saying among troops. It says, "Freedom, for those who fought for it, has a taste the protected will never know."

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