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Excerpt from Jul 03 petition for Congressional Medal of Honor consideration: On 2 April 1968...[Joe Vitale and Mike Wacasey], armed only with an M-14, M-60 machinegun, fragmentation/white phosphorous grenades and 1000 rounds of ammunition, were inserted by PBR (river patrol boat) near [a] village on the Ham Luong [river]... [the two sailors] were shortly confronted by [a North Vietnamese Army] company (approximately 100 troops) with no PBR or helicopter gunfire support. The men decided their only chance for survival was to take the fight to the enemy, so Joe threw grenades into half a dozen hooches as Mike continued...

Hi, Everybody. I just wanted to write a small note to let you all know that I had another MRI on May 20th. This one was nine months post diagnosis / surgery and the local doctors have deemed the scan "clean". The scan shows there is still some minor healing occurring at the surgical site (though not as pronounced as the previous scans have shown) and, more importantly, there is no new growth from any residual tumor. I sent the scans down to The Brain Tumor Center at Duke yesterday, as is part of our standard procedure these days....