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And we return to our American stories.

Up next, a story out of Abilene, Texas, from the best storyteller in Abilene, and

maybe one of the best storytellers in the country. We're talking about our frequent contributor,

Jay Moore, and he's been regular here at Our American Stories for some time. Today, he shares

the story of a personal hero, a man with one eye. Take it away, Jay.

Well, I think, you know, we all have those people who for one reason or another is someone that we claim as a personal hero.

And one of those for me is a guy who Dennis Holt.

My fellow Americans and my fellow citizens of the world community.

I ask you to share with me today the majesty of this moment.

Four months after President Nixon took office in January of 69,

he went on television to really lay out what his peace plan was going

to be for ending the war in Vietnam.

I've asked for this television time tonight to make public a plan for peace that can end the war in

Vietnam. The offer that I shall now present on behalf of the government of the United States and the

government of South Vietnam with the full knowledge and approval of President 2 is both

generous and far-reaching and in his broadcast he called for U.S. and North Vietnamese troops to

just both pull out simultaneously from South Vietnam over the next 12 months.

At the time of his talk, U.S. troops were at their highest level, over 540,000, I think, were in South Vietnam.

But ultimately, the leaders of North Vietnam are going to reject his peace plan.

But that same day, North Vietnamese troops

were oppressing an attack on several South Vietnamese villages and U.S. bases. It really was

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