Caption: Staff Sergeant Donald M. Lemos (New Bedford, Maes.) visits Nguyen Thi Thuan at Ky Hoa in the Iy Tin District of South Vietnam. The 14-year-old girl had been blind from birth until the 2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Missile (LAAM) Battalion adopted the hamlet as a Civil Affairs project. After two operations, the girl, who once suffered from cataracts, was able to see for the first time in her life.

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