Word: lucier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies to get an orphanage started by writing to a New Orleans newspaper. On his own initiative, Navy Medic "Doc" Lucier, a burly, open-faced Negro from Birmingham, Ala., braves booby-trapped trails to give shots, distribute drugs and administer first-aid in out of the way villages. "There's just got to be something more than bullets," he says. "Until we start treating these people like human beings, they aren...