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The Children They Left Behind
The Boston Globe ^ | October 25, 2003 | Indira A. R. Lakshmanan

Posted on 10/25/2003 2:49:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

When Clint Haines last scoured the highlands of central Vietnam, he was part of a US Army "hunter-killer" team, an airborne cavalry unit that swept low over the treetops, drawing fire from an invisible enemy and calling in strikes on hidden encampments. Thirty-two years on, Haines has returned to his old battlefield with the same stomach-churning, heart-pounding thrill of mission he felt every morning he boarded his helicopter in 1971. Only this time, Haines is not hunting for Viet Cong -- he is searching for the child he fathered and has never known.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amerasians; vietnam; vietnamvets

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