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Unknown to Norm "Head" Dykya

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09751.20 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 May 1968 Pagination: 2 p. ; 1 envelope ; 26.5 x 18.9 cm. Order a Copy

One letter to "Head" dated May 7, 1968. Apologizes for not being to meet up recently but assures him that he will make it back to Chicago for a visit. He will likely be deployed to Vietnam in July and is making attempts to not be sent there. Wishes that he'll never be drafted, "This whole ___ Army blows."

Dujka, Norm, 1945-2006

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