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After a few more trauma surgeries, the nurses in the Recovery Room/ICU presented me with a love-bead necklace they had made for me to inform the 85th Evac that I was accepted as a competent surgeon. The necklace now resides in the Southeast Asia Collection in Kroch Library at Cornell University, along with my tear-drop broken peace sign. I wore both throughout my entire tour to the consternation of the regular army-lifer types.

Gus (with “love beads”), Duane, Mike, and Bob (corpsman in the background) at Dave’s send-off