The gaze of Raeford Lawson, a 77-year-old veteran and proud Detroiter, often lingers on the past, but his thoughts of yesteryear aren’t ones of a nostalgic old man reminiscing his youth. Instead, this retired soldier’s flashbacks show signs of a man who has witnessed a lot of anguish. “Vietnam was a different beast,” Lawson says … Continued

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