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Vietnam veteran shares painful secret in heartfelt obituary after a lifetime of secrecy
An 85-year-old Vietnam war veteran, who lived a large part of his life in silence out of fear of distancing his loved ones, has at last shared an 'open secret' in his own obituary. Colonel Edward Thomas Ryan passed away at his home in Rensselaer, …