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Editorial
'Vietnam Vet' really wasn't
Thursday, January 24, 2019
A caller this morning pointed out that a caption on a photo on page 3 of Wednesday’s edition is apparently incorrect. Omaha tribe elder Nate Phillips, involved in a video recording of a confrontation with a Catholic boys school student at a demonstration in Washington, has described himself as a Vietnam vet. Since the incident put him in the spotlight, however, critics have determined that while he was a Marine during the Vietnam war, he was never actually deployed to Vietnam. Calling him a Vietnam vet is disrespectful to actual Vietnam vets, the caller said.