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Oral History Interview: Richard Hertel
Richard Hertel served in the Army as a personnel clerk and chapel organist in Phu Loi during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1970. Upon returning home, he started a long journey of divorcing his wife, separating from his daughter and coming out as a gay man.