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Archive Home > 2012 > December > 23 > Vietnam scars shape Hagel’s outlook

Vietnam scars shape Hagel’s outlook

By Craig Whitlock / The Bulletin
December 23, 2012

WASHINGTON — Shards from a Vietcong mine are still embedded in Chuck Hagel’s chest, 44 years after his infantry squad walked into a booby trap in the Vietnam jungle. Scar tissue marks the left side of his face from another mine explosion, barely a month after his first brush with death.

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