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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - William Tallerdy arrived back from Vietnam in 1967, still wearing his Army-issued green uniform, and was met by a heckler in a New York City airport who asked if he was returning from the war - then struck him in the face. Tallerdy recalls raging against the man, beating him in the terminal before being restrained by relatives and the police. Soon after, he threw out his war ribbons. “I was always proud of my military service,” said Tallerdy, who is now 57 and lives in Cheyenne, Wyo. “It was just that people made me feel like scum.”
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