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In her book, "Voices From Vietnam," author Charlene Edwards takes an intimate look at the battle scars still haunting Vietnamese and U.S. troops.

She tried to enlist after the military after 9/11, but recruiters told the 46-year-old she was too old. So she just found a new way to make a difference, launching the largest military support organization in history.

As dawn broke on June 6, 1944, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest single-day beach invasion in history - an invasion that began the liberataton of Western Europe from Nazi occupation.

On July 8, 1969, the first American troops are withdrawn from Vietnam. It's the beginning of a 2-year deployment ending the longest military conflict in U.S. history.