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A hero's nickname

Johnnie and I served in Vietnam together.  One morning Johnnie singlehandedly shot it out with three Viet Cong in the middle of a dirt road through the jungle.  He won, they lost.  I think it was at that point we started calling him, "The Kennebunk Kid."  He was the kindest and most sincere gunfighter I ever met.

JK

Posted by Joe Kirkup
Monday November 10, 2014 at 10:00 pm
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