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Jimmy Nakayama was a US soldier in Vietnam, 1965. After being hit in a friendly fire airstrike, Nakayama was rescued by reporter Joe Galloway who described how Jimmy's skin peeled off his legs when he tried to lift him. Nakayama died that week two days shy of 22 and the same week his wife gave birth

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On this day in 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon Johnson to escalate US troop presence in Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress

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Jimmy Nakayama was a US soldier in Vietnam, 1965. After being hit in a friendly fire airstrike, Nakayama was rescued by reporter Joe Galloway who described how Jimmy's skin peeled off his legs when he tried to lift him. Nakayama died that week two days shy of 22 and the same week his wife gave birth	121
On this day in 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon Johnson to escalate US troop presence in Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress	70