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Helicopter restoration helps heal battle scars of ex-Marine

It had flown in combat in Vietnam, its floorboards occasionally awash with the blood of wounded and dying soldiers.

When the war ended, it lay in an Arizona boneyard for abandoned aircraft, discarded and forgotten after eight years of service.

Today, it has been resurrected, painstakingly rebuilt in a North Fork potato barn by the hands of dedicated men with their own histories of...

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