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It all started in Vietnam. Barnes was just one of the approximately 2,700,000 American soldiers who served in Vietnam during the 1955 war. He was a young man when he was deployed and had no idea about the true horrors of war.

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Later, Barnes described this period as the most traumatic experience in his life. The war in Vietnam was brutal on both sides, but American soldiers, in particular, struggled with the hostile climate on top of being deep in enemy territory.