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Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time
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"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like"

- Tony Hillerman

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