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What were the opinions of the Irish toward their peers that left for America during the potato famine? Resentful? Envious? Did they think they were weaker for leaving?

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Soldiers today wear hearing protection when training with rifles, and even during deployment, earplugs were an inspectionable item in some units. Was ear damage and hearing loss as rampant as one would imagine with the levels of exposure to cannon, artillery, rifles, etc. without any protection?

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The United States wasn't the only nation that fought in the Vietnam War; were the soldiers from New Zealand, South Korea, and Canada experience similar to that of their American counterparts?

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What were the opinions of the Irish toward their peers that left for America during the potato famine? Resentful? Envious? Did they think they were weaker for leaving?	218
Soldiers today wear hearing protection when training with rifles, and even during deployment, earplugs were an inspectionable item in some units. Was ear damage and hearing loss as rampant as one would imagine with the levels of exposure to cannon, artillery, rifles, etc. without any protection?	38
The United States wasn't the only nation that fought in the Vietnam War; were the soldiers from New Zealand, South Korea, and Canada experience similar to that of their American counterparts?	12