Purple Heart Day celebration immortalizes war veterans’ stories

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By Jacob Wittich

Mike Lash, a U.S. Navy veteran and Chicago native, still remembers in vivid detail the two explosions he survived in the Vietnam War.

The first came from a B40 rocket that exploded about 10 feet away in August 1968, Lash said. Months later, it happened again when a larger rocket exploded near him in December. Both times he suffered severe shrapnel wounds and spent about a month in the hospital.

“It’s an unusual feeling getting hurt because you don’t feel any pain initially. It’s more like you’re in a dead zone,” Lash said. “There’s no sound. You can’t hear anything. It’s a strange feeling like out of a movie.”

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