'These Boys Were the Best of Us' ; Memories Fond, but Wounds Don't Heal for Families of the Mason Teens Who Died in Vietnam.

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MASON -- The last letter Ted Middleton wrote to his family arrived in Mason after his death. The 1967 Mason graduate was a member of an air mobile unit fighting in Vietnam.

In the letter, the 19-year-old told his family that he's always in the helicopter, but gets one hot meal a day, so it's not so bad. When he gets out of the helicopter, he gets fired at, he wrote.

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'These Boys Were the Best of Us' ; Memories Fond, but Wounds Don't Heal for Families of the Mason Teens Who Died in Vietnam.

Ted's words still have an emotional impact on his sisters, Barb Powers of Mason and Beverly Bowers of Lebanon. Especially the last line.

"If I die I'm bound to go to heaven, because I'm spending my time in he...

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