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Long Islanders reflect on Vietnam era

Across Long Island that historic summer of 1969, the background noise - to family dinners, routine high school and campus gatherings and a host of other social and political events - was the war in Vietnam.

Those who were for it made their feelings known in big and small ways. Those who were against it shouted their disapproval. Arguments divided families. It was the same across America,...

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