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After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, in December 1971, Nick Nickell, a young California teenage farmer, joined the war effort to help secure American freedom. As a Marine Corpsman he fought to save lives during the battle at Okinawa. He returned home a hero...and a broken soldier.
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