Marine's Memory: Retired lieutenant colonel helped U.S. win key battle in Vietnam

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 Marine's Memory: Retired lieutenant colonel helped U.S. win key battle in Vietnam

    By GREG K. DEAL gdeal@indexjournal.com Dec 5, 2020

 
He choked up while talking about the men he served with during the war in Vietnam. He clinched his fist near his face to compose himself, then he continued.

"You know, with officers, you are not supposed to show your emotions," retired Lt. Col. Joe Como said while sitting in a room full of war memorabilia in his Greenwood home.

The 91-year-old remembers plenty of rubber body bags containing dead soldiers while on the airplane on his journey home from Vietnam.

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