The younger Puller would go on to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Fortunate Son (1991), as a tribute to his father, and die by his own hand in 1994. "We looked for the rest of {Puller} and his rifle but found nothing," Ellis wrote. He suffered terrible wounds that never really healed". The frigate spent the rest of the year conducting underway training periods off San Pedro. But if we simply remember Lewis Puller, his courageous wheel-chaired image, then that's enough. Chesty Puller's accomplishments during his 37-year career, starting as an enlisted man and then as an officer, remain unequaled. "I remember her saying, 'Thank God his mind is okay,' " says Barnett. Were we stupid to believe? The frigate got underway for its final deployment, steaming for Rodman, Panama (2 October). Archivist Alisa Whitley said the photo is undated and the photographer is unknown. The many acts of kindness from our friends across the country have helped us in this very difficult time. Making way from Long Beach in company with Duncan (FFG-10) on 17 April, the two vessels conducted a missile test at the Pacific Missile Test Center Range with Lewis B. Puller acting as tracker and backup missile shooter for Duncan. Under the strain, she had lost 15 pounds during her pregnancy. Chesty Puller, USMC, during the Korean War,1 September 1950. Twenty movie offers. 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Puller told the story of his ordeal and its aftermath in his 1991 autobiography, Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr., published by Grove Press. 'I think this is wonderful,' said Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. at the Fourth of July concert, 'but sometimes I wonder if all this isn't just making it easier for a whole new generation to be sucked into what we were.'. Here's the deal: Michael Campbell and Tiger Woods have met before, and it hasn't always been entirely pleasant. Adolfo Daz. Puller is the grandson of Marine legend Lewis "Chesty" Puller, who is the most decorated Marine. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. His son, Lewis Puller, Jr., became a Marine infantry officer and suffered horrendous wounds after stepping on a booby-trapped artillery shell in Vietnam in 1968. Ralph K. Martin in command. Puller had grown up in Saluda, Va., and knew the strongly pro-military district well, and he despised Trible, who later became a U.S. senator. From left to right, rear to front; left row (rear) Sides (FFG-14), (front) Mahlon S. Risdale (FFG-27), middle row (rear) Duncan (FFG-10) (center) Copeland (FFG-25) (lead ship) Lewis B. Puller(FFG-23), right row (rear) George Philip (FFG-12) and (front) Wadsworth (FFG-9), 23 January 1994. In five years he fought a handful of small engagements against peasant cacos (guerrillas), failed his second stint as a Marine officer candidate, and finally gained a permanent commission on his third attempt in 1924. The guided missile frigate Lewis B. Puller was laid down on 23 May 1979, at San Pedro, Calif., by the Todd Pacific Shipyard Corp.; launched on 15 March 1980 and sponsored by Mrs. Virginia M.. E-mail Brian Murphy at page2murphy@yahoo.com. She hosted the 100th Anniversary of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Vietnam veteran Lewis Puller, Jr. reflects on his Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, "Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis Puller, Jr.," in which he describes his terrible experiences in Vietnam and afterward. Makes it all a little richer, doesn't it? Some look at the final round of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. Me? Does that mean that the stories our own parents told us were lies? Tormented with aches that never stopped and growing doubts about the war, Puller would scream for morphine. He got through law school in 1974 and landed a job at the Veterans Administration and then a position on President Ford's Clemency Board. The account ended with Puller triumphing over his physical disabilities and becoming emotionally at peace with himself. I'm certainly more moderate than he was. Mistaken for the enemy, shot and mortally wounded by his. Highlights of the exercise included Lewis B. Puller entering the Bering Sea for her first time (26 September). While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. On November 8 Puller was wounded in a Japanese machine gun and artillery attack on his command post. His marriage was ending, Scruggs said. He retired as a lieutenant general in 1955. Vietnam was "different" is just about all we can say. He obviously put a lot into it., Puller returned to Vietnam last August for the first time since the war, and said he was overwhelmed when he met disabled Vietnamese veterans, Here I am, sitting on an NVA (North Vietnam Army) soldiers bed with him, he said You know, our stumps are all tangled up. He was 48. Following a port visit to Anchorage (1316 October), the warship returned to Long Beach for fuel and provisions on the 22nd before steaming for exercise Kernal Usher 89-1 the next day. He won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his autobiography Fortunate Son. "But I couldn't do it," he says. Your running for the House of Representatives ten years after our meeting in Vietnam reaffirmed the worth of my service there and is a source of great personal satisfaction to me.". Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. He had . (fade to roar). Witness the Bosnian Serbs and Muslims, who have been fighting for centuries. When this June 6, President Clinton represents the United States at the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Lew Puller's story will be alive. The Life of Chesty Puller (1962), the semiautobiographical account of his life authored by the well-known historical writer Burke Davis. Mrs. Lewis B. Puller, ships sponsor, and Commander Ralph K. Martin, commanding officer, stood at the podium during the commissioning ceremony for the guided missile frigate Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23) at Naval Air Station, Long Beach, 17 April 1982. As he negotiates his way through the Fairfax County rambler, back toward his and Toddy's bedroom, he wheels himself around workmen's dropcloths and rolled-back carpet. "I had to learn how to stop being fixated on the past, to live in the future," says Puller, a Pentagon attorney turned acclaimed author. Depressed, he drank until he threw up and then he sloshed back more beer, more scotch. Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. (August 18, 1945 May 11, 1994) was an attorney and a United States Marine Corps officer who was severely wounded in the Vietnam War. 'I'm very proud of my father and the Marine Corps, but I just don't think I could stand to see anything happen to my son,' he said. He was not sponsored by PBR. Lewis Puller, Jr. Category. About not dying from alcohol after he had lived through so many other horrors. "I was his friend. "We buried his foot.". DANFS - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Permitting Policy and Resource Management, The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: 20 Years Later, "Ex Scientia Tridens": The U.S. He said Puller required hospitalization. January 1993. Two weeks later, she participated in Surface Warfare Training Week Long Beach (59 April). And of love. He was also awarded the Armys Distinguished Service Cross. As tensions increased in the Pacific, the American military presence in China was drawn down, and in August 1941 Puller returned to the United States and an assignment with the newly established 1st Marine Division. After Vietnam, he attended law school at the College of William and Mary, and worked as a Defense Department lawyer before taking a leave of absence to teach. Puller was graduated from the Christchurch School, in Christchurch, Virginia, in 1963 and from the College of William and Mary in 1967. Transferred to the Egyptian Navy, she was renamed Toushka (F.906) the same day. In 2000, Campbell had ascended on the international stage, reaching as high as 14th in the World Golf Rankings. Through it all, Toddy allowed him no self-pity. Looking Forward These days at the Puller house, Lynn Barnett says, there are fantasy discussions about which actors should play their characters if the book becomes a movie. The ones who survived were heroes; the more heroic, the greater the wounds. He saw combat on the Matanikau River and at Pelelieu in World War II and at Inchon and the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Tiger's arrival in New Zealand was carried live on TV, and wire reports characterized it as if royalty were visiting the country. Marines often invoked Pullers most memorable (although sometimes apocryphal or misattributed) quotes to showcase the bravery and tenacity of the Corps, while also reinforcing Pullers idealized image as a Marines Marine. In 1957 the Corps official bulldog mascot was dubbed Chesty, a name that his canine successors retained into the 21st century. To the end, Fuller was the good soldier, always did his duty. Lewis B. Puller made way for Australia, crossing the equator and entering the realm of King Neptunes Court (15 June). Its crystal-clear, black-and-white images, to linger forever in our psyches, were everywhere: the movies we saw, the games we played; even the first president most of us remember was the D-Day commander who had liberated Europe. A state legislator, she was attending a special session of the General Assembly. Then again, considering his previous "Classiest Move" was deciding at the last second not to hock a loog on a green-side reporter, he hadn't set the bar very high. For eight months he could not find a job. Taps echoes after the last volley report fades. Remaining in the Hawaiian area until late June, the crew readied for Rimpac 92. He was awarded the Silver Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, two Purple Heart Medals, and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross for his service in the Marine Corps.[3]. With one hip joint completely gone and only six inches left of the other leg, he could not adapt to prostheses, no matter how hard he tried. He arrived in July 1939 and resumed command of the Marine detachment on the Augusta. Lewis B. Puller, part of the Amphibious Transport Screening Group (ATSG), conducted mock battles with air, surface, and submarine units including units of the famed Sea, Air, and Land Teams (SEALs). Now, for the rest of my Pinehurst pen marks: Having said all that about Tiger and Campbell, the gesture by Williams, Tiger's caddie and Campbell's countryman, to hang out by the 18th green and give Campbell a congratulatory hug and handshake had to rate as perhaps Williams' classiest move since he started looping for Tiger. Fill (R-Mount Vernon). Puller would go on to serve for 37 years, including combat commands in both World War II and the Korean War. Now, more than two decades after the explosion, after years so dark that he would wheel himself into pitch-black rooms and brood about life's random blows, Lewis Puller Jr. is ready to talk, and he is telling an extraordinary story of survival. Throughout the months of JulyAugust, she conducted workups for a five-week long Pacific Exercise (Pacex). The war we were talking about was, of course, World War II. The young Marines before us at attention and unmoving. "She was brutally direct with him," recalls Kerrey, who spent nine months in the hospital ward with Puller. She said my father was upset," says Maggie Puller, a 20-year-old anthropology major at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. America was supposed to win its wars, or at least have the will to do so. Why Jason Gore Ruled, Part Deux: On the 16th tee, en route to an 84, and with the other man in his group en route to an 81, Gore turned to Goosen and said: "Why don't we play the last three holes for five bucks, just to make it interesting?". In retrospect, he was wrapping things up. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Later that night, Walter Cronkite would tell the nation on "The CBS Evening News": Another tragedy in Vietnam today, a famous American son had fallen. I'm just here to report that his hairstyle part 'fro, part bouffant was last seen on Percy Sledge, circa 1964. His military career began inauspiciously. He entered a 28-day detox program in 1981 and has not taken another drink since. After receiving small repairs to her hull, she conducted a fast cruise, running several drills while at sea (117 April). Her father had put an iron poker through the television set, enraged at a documentary on Vietnam veterans. The staff had been alerted that my door was to remain closed, and although Toddy was nervous about being interrupted, our need for each other gradually prevailed over her inhibitions. He drank more and more, keeping half-gallon bottles of white wine at home, even bringing fifths of scotch to work. It's Philadelphia tomorrow, isn't it? The explosion tore away his legs and parts of both hands. Lewis Puller Jr. says, smiling as the fourth interview of the day comes to an end. It was incredible.. He was not sponsored by PBR. Everything is looking brighter. [1] The title of this autobiography was borrowed from the song "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, to which he gives credit in the opening pages. 1 was felt in ticket prices, and organizers announced the price of a weekly ticket was bumped up, just a shade from $20 to a cool $190. Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. was the son of Lt. General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was an old-line Virginian. 'I didn't see any of the sons of corporate leaders in Vietnam. Campbell and Turner threatened to boycott the tourney. Chesty died in October 1971 following a series of strokes. Lewis B. Puller carried out counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean while attached to Joint Task Force Four (1 September10 December). However, World War I ended three months later, before the eager young officer could enter combat. On December 26, 1932, just five days before the end of the U.S. intervention, Puller led a Guardia unit in one of the biggest victories of the conflict at El Sauce. The financial strain of paying the World No. The frigate participated in Team Spirit 84, a combined U.S. and Republic of Korea amphibious exercise. Lewis B. Puller changed homeports from San Pedro to Long Beach (12 January 1987). He served as a director of the Vietnam Memorial Association, an American non-profit group that promotes reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam. It's easy, and probably not wrong, to say that Lew Puller died from the unhealed wounds he suffered in Vietnam. Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet. He fought as hard to stay in the Corps as he had against any enemy, but a Navy medical board deemed him unfit and he was forced to retire in October 1955 at the honorary rank of lieutenant general. For his actions at Chosin, he received a fifth Navy Cross, becoming the only Marine in history to earn that many awards of the nations second highest military decoration. The Second Sino-Japanese War had begun two years earlier, and Japanese armies had siezed most of Chinas ports as well as many of its largest cities. [6] In the days leading up to his death, Puller fought a losing battle with the alcoholism that he had kept at bay for 13 years, and struggled with a more recent addiction, to painkillers initially prescribed to dull continuing pain from his wounds.[2]. Lewis B. Puller spent the first week of September tasked as the Southern California ready duty counter-narcotics vessel, however, she did not deploy due to lack of suspect traffic (110 September). He flunked out of flight school two years later. But we the parents still don't have our stories straight. If it felt really odd to see Tiger contend, and then fall just short, that's because it was odd. Yet years later, in an inspired gesture to heal the nation's wounds, if not his own, Puller stood with Bill Clinton before the Vietnam Memorial to face down fellow veterans' presidential boos. After a respite in Australia, the 7th Marines, with Puller now serving as the regiments executive officer, landed at Cape Gloucester in northwest New Britain, on December 26, 1943. Coast-to-coast TV and radio interviews. Lewis B. Puller spent the next two months engaged in ASW training, off Esquimalt, B.C., and Anchorage, Alaska (24 September5 October 1987). I would love to go, one day. During several short underway periods off Long Beach in JanuaryMarch 1988, Lewis B. Puller participated in ASW exercises. Seizing the contraband and five crewmembers, Lewis B. Puller arrived at NS Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, to transfer the prisoners and contraband to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). At first we touched each other tentatively, but when she sensed that I was not as fragile as I seemed and I realized that I could still perform, we forsook caution and made love with the eagerness of young lovers who had been apart for half a year. I remember when he won the RBC Canadian Open this year and his wife and child came on the green to celebrate with him. Now you've got me.'". With the ice broken by the kiss and my inhibitions diminished by morphine, I asked her to raise her skirt so that I could assess the state of her pregnancy, and when she complied, we smiled at each other conspiratorially over our handiwork. His namesake grandson was born just days after his son was so gravely maimed by a booby-trapped artillery round in an operation near Da Nang. "This is a man who had so many burdens, so many things to bear. Such is the price of a red shirt on Sunday, apparently. 'I think the Puller family has made enough of a commitment and that we can skip a generation.'. He felt his courage caving. We were 23 years old and I had to be like this for the rest of my life, but she didn't have to stick it out," says Puller, now asking his wife if she remembers that day. The world that the so-called Vietnam generation inherited was not supposed to work the way it did. Corrections? Departing from Hawaii, she made way for Vancouver, B.C., to conduct anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training (2528 July). It was massive news in New Zealand, along the lines of the Steinlager brewery catching fire or the price of lamb chops rising. In August, Lewis B. Puller charted a course for Hawaii, making a port visit at Pearl Harbor (1014 August), before participating in Hollywood Ops (1619 August), with submarines New York City (SSN-695), Portsmouth (SSN-707), and Duncan, Copeland (FFG-25), and John A. Moore (FFG-19). One day he started drinking and decided he wouldn't stop until he was dead. Days later two-thirds of his stomach had to be removed. Lewis B. Puller remained busy into New Year 1997, shifting her homeport to Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, San Diego, in preparation for the Chinese Navys first port visit to the continental U.S. (2025 March 1997). Chesty Pullers birth with a party on board (26 June). That he did reminds us all of my father's long-standing, head-shaking admonition about golf: It's the devil's own game, son. Gore went to local qualifying, then to sectional qualifying and earned his way to the national Open. It would be the last time he did not march toward the sound of the guns. He remembers wheeling himself into grocery stores and malls where he had once shaken voters' hands. For years after he returned to a reasonably sound physical condition, he remained emotionally shaken, though he earned a law degree, had two children with the woman he had married before going to Vietnam, and raised a family. The couple appears to be on the porch of their home. Lewis B. Puller steamed for Hawaii to participate in the Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) 88 exercise, and made a port visit to Pearl Harbor (1416 July). Tiger is 29.). Alcohol was the source of his problems before. Linda Ford "Toddy" Todd, an art history major at Mary Washington College, sister school to the then all-male University of Virginia, and Lewis Burwell Puller Jr., a graduate of William and Mary College and a Marine officer, had married hurriedly in a chapel at Quantico two months before he left for war. During her underway period, she made port visits to Curacao, Netherland Antilles (30 May2 June); Guantnamo Bay (20 June); NS Rodman, Panama (11 July); and Mazatln, Mexico (1417 August). And he bore them well for 25 years," he said. Over the following years, his aggressive pursuit of Csar Augusto Sandinos rebels led to numerous battles, two Navy Crosses, and a reputation for fearlessness, as well as the nickname Chesty. After spending 10 months undergoing advanced training at U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, Puller began a second tour of duty in Nicaragua in July 1932. Toddy, then a fourth-grade teacher in Woodbridge, had gotten pregnant on a weekend outing to the Rappahannock River, abruptly scuttling their plans to marry upon his return. Smith handpicked Puller for the assignment. In just over eight weeks on Guadalcanal, the officers of the 1st Battalion had suffered a casualty rate of 50 percent; casualties among enlisted men approached 30 percent. His son is Lewis Burwell Puller III, whose illustrious lieutenant general grandfather fought in Haiti, Nicaragua, Guadacanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Korea, winning four Navy crosses, the bronze and silver stars and the Legion of Merit to become the most decorated Marine in history. He described how his father broke down weeping and that hurt him more than any of his physical injuries. Don M. Boileau, who taught a class at George Mason with Puller, said he received a handwritten note Wednesday from his colleague. Tiger, with his second-place mark, now has 15. (FFG-23; displacement 3,627 tons; length 445'; beam 45' 4"; draft 24' 6"; speed 28+ knots; complement 184; armament 1 Oto Melara Mk 75 76-millimeter, 1 Mk 13 Guided Missile Launcher for RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/surface-to-air missiles, 6 Mk 32 Torpedo Tubes, 2 Kaman SH-2F Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System Seasprites; class Oliver Hazard Perry). Then a few months later at a wedding in Philadelphia, where he was seated next to a woman who made no effort to hide her revulsion at his appearance, he began throwing back scotch again. [7] Puller's survivors included their two children, Lewis III and Maggie, his twin sister, Martha Downs, and sister, Virginia Dabney. Henty. But he laughs and says, "We'll see. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a Marine officer. "What did I miss?" He was promoted to captain in February 1936 and returned to the United States later that year to begin a teaching assignment at The Basic School, the training course for newly commissioned or appointed Marine officers. It was a miracle.". ", Then he excuses himself. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. It is clear that Lewis affected the lives of people in ways that we never knew." In 1918 he enlisted in the Marine Corps, gaining a commission after the conflict was over and never having left the States. Your survival had seemed to me a miracle of dubious value which severely tested the moral imperative of my Hippocratic oath. Lewis says he's heard about a proposal for a 12-part TV miniseries. But Toddy told him he had to live, that they were going to have a baby, that he still had his mind. Reporters, in turn, had noted that it was odd that Campbell was apparently dressing to look like Tiger in a sort of weird, PGA Tour version of "Single White Female. The explosion also burst Puller's eardrum, dislocated his shoulder, split his scrotum and riddled the rest of his body with shrapnel. "I'm telling you, I saw the blood oozing out of him. He'll be around at 5:30 a.m. Lewis and Toddy Puller, sudden celebrities, have had so many jolts in life that they are cautious about this latest upturn. Tiger didn't hand it too Campbell this time around, not with his struggles with the putter. There Puller briefly commanded two battalions who had lost their commanders in hard fighting, resulting in a fourth Navy Cross. The first major Allied offensive of the Pacific War began on August 7, 1942, with an amphibious landing on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands. Other appearances. National Archives Identifier: 6423339. Lewis Puller Jr., son of "Chesty" Puller -- the most decorated Marine in history, a man who had covered himself with glory from Guadalcanal to Inchon -- had been married five months when an enemy trap near a glimmering white beach blew his storybook life to bits. Chesty Puller's early life and entry into the US Marine Corps. "I can see 99 out of 100 walking out. Lewis Puller Jr. On the C-SPAN Networks: Lewis Puller Jr. is an Author with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1992 Booknotes . He got pneumonia and hepatitis. FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) _ Former U.S. Marine Lewis B. Puller Jr., whose autobiography recounting his experiences as a disabled Vietnam veteran won him a Pulitzer Prize, committed suicide Wednesday. Harsh criticism, much of it unjust or misplaced, would dog his reputation thereafter. His active-duty service Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. The Democratic leadership in Richmond, keenly impressed with her, has gerrymandered the district, and she is favored this time. He led his old regiment in the daring amphibious assault on Inchon (September 15, 1950), during vicious street fighting in Seoul (September 2527, 1950), and through the maelstrom of subfreezing weather and relentless Chinese human-wave attacks in the Chosin Reservoir campaign (NovemberDecember 1950). "She once tipped him over in his wheelchair. NBC dug up a photo of a 17-year-old Vijay Singh at the 1980 World Team Championships. During Varsity Player-92, Lewis B. Puller steamed to New Westminster, B.C., making port visits at New Westminster (911 August 1991) and Nanaimo (12 August). Puller's hair is graying in the photo. Why the U.S. Open rules over The Masters: There would be no Jason Gore at The Masters. After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), the U.S. was at last drawn into World War II and Puller would gain his first experience leading American troops in the field. Puller, who died in 1971 at age 73, is one of the most decorated Marines of all time, earning five Navy Crosses over the course of his 37-year career. Another difference between The Masters and the U.S. Open the sounds. "Never," the doctor wrote, "had I seen more severe traumatic injuries in a patient who had lived, and I wondered at the time if I was doing the right thing by allowing you to live. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. I've never been to New Zealand. 'My father was very conservative. Fairfax County police said only they were investigating a death at Pullers residence. But the drinking continued. But when the world doesn't change, alcohol lubricates the painful friction, the constant grinding, as powerful as that of the earth's tectonic plates, between what was and what is, what might have been and what really wasn't. Cause of death: suicide (by gunshot). It was a very precise note regarding students grading, said Boileau, chairman of the communications department. The photo itself holds an element of mystery. They did not lose elections to draft-dodgers, as Lew Puller unapologetically called the man who beat him in a 1978 Virginia congressional race. The most decorated Marine in U.S. history, Puller earned five Navy Cross awards (the most by a Marine) and one U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross. He left his job as a lawyer at the Pentagon to accept a teaching position at George Mason University. Lynn Barnett, who has known Toddy since their college days in Fredericksburg and who helped type Puller's manuscript, says Toddy got through the initial shock of her husband's disfigurement by "dwelling on what was okay about it. Lt. Gen. Puller died on 11 October 1971, at the age of 73. I would look at her for signs of rejection.". Perhaps most enduring, though, is the unofficial lights out slogan of the Corps: Good night, Chesty, wherever you are., American government official, economist, and business executive. He suffered terrible wounds that never really healed.. Lew's father and namesake was Lewis B. Puller was the son of the most highly decorated Marine in U.S. history, Gen. Lewis Chesty Puller. Chesty died in October 1971 following a series of strokes. Now fast-forward to Sunday at Pinehurst. 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