Wednesday, September 20, 2017

In the News ... "Rev. Bill Libby sees himself in Burns documentary"

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• "Hey, there you are.”

By Brian Bethel, Contributor
• Abilene Reporter-News

ABILENE, TEXAS - In the opening minutes of documentarian Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War,” the Rev. Bill Libby found a mirror into the past.

Watching the documentary with a friend, Libby, who served as a United Methodist U.S. Army chaplain with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, saw himself, standing before a row of M-16 rifles wedged into the earth and crowned with the helmets of fellow paratroopers killed in battle near Hue, Vietnam, on May 31, 1968 ...

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