"You Have To Pay the Price" (1918, 1952, 1968, 2020)
An American patriot in Vietnam...and the Return of Sports in America
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I. “Black and white heroes and villains”
In 1952, a man named Ralph McGehee received a telegram highlighted by one key question: Would you like to serve your country in an unusual way? McGehee was a management trainee at the Montgomery Ward depart…
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