Caption: Tran Ngoc Bich, whose name means The Emerald of the Tran Family, outside the mess hall at Dau Tieng where she worked. While I was recuperating from my last wound, we became close friends. When I left Vietnam, she accompanied me to the air strip to say good-bye, the only person to do so. We corresponded for several years after I returned home.

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