Barry Romo was a strong supporter of the war when he arrived in Vietnam as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1967 but within four years, he was a leader of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
The intensity of enemy fire kept Bobby's body sitting in the sun for 48 hours until it could be retrieved. A staff sergeant said, 'Why don't we seal the body permanently?' Mr. Romo told Story Corps, the oral history project, in 2015.
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