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In nineteen seventy one the U.S.
donated to swift boats to the

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republic of Malta forty one years later
one of those voters returned

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home to become the most recent
exhibit of the maritime museum

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of san diego. Why are in the for
phone a lot of you out another

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piece in the thing you want.

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How many in their ales was thirty
five vietnam veterans of circuit

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boards with boats during the war.

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For anything else that that was
a welcome home for the guys to

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actually here and the people they
represent many of these veterans

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have been waiting more than forty
years for welcome hold and

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the long overdue. Thank you. I was
looking at my comrades that

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I serve with vietnam with your
today and thinking about those

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that work some of them doing lots
and and this both is to represent

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them and to honor their search for
from saint diego from petty

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officer jonathan either..