A Flight Surgeon in Vietnam

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By John Walters on Friday, May 27, 2005.
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Amos Townsend is a retired physician and Air Force Colonel who served as a flight surgeon in Vietnam at the height of the American war. He later returned to Southeast Asia with his wife for five years to help refugees at a refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border. He tells host John Walters why his work in the health field took him to more than 40 countries.

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