Marine Corps servicemember receives a token of appreciation from a young Vietnamese girl before redeployment to Okinawa aboard the USS Paul Revere. This image captures the moment during a ceremony on July 14, 1969, attended by Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Warner, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

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