Marine’s Final Exit Juan Valdez, the last Marine to leave Vietnam, has died at 88. As North Vietnamese troops closed in, Valdez was the last one to board the last helicopter out of Saigon – it’s a exit that’s hard

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Peace Voice Silenced Colman McCarthy, a man who traded in his monk’s robes for a journalist’s pen, has died at 87. He won’t be forgotten, thanks to his decades-long crusade for peace. McCarthy’s syndicated column in the Post made him

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