US Marine John Basso from Des Plaines, 211th Regiment, distributes Christmas gifts to children in Hung Phu, located eight miles west of Dong The. The gifts were collected and sent by students of Grant Motor High School in Georgetown, as part of the Fourth Marine's Civil Affairs project to support Vietnamese children.

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