Heat Advisory issued June 21 at 8:35PM EDT until June 24 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 103 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...From noon Sunday to 8 PM EDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2015
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Eichler at age 19 stands in front of an Army tank while stationed in Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam, in 1967. Several months later he and another soldier were were shot several times by a Viet Cong sniper while assigned to an observation post in the jungle.

Related online story:
Local veteran's war wounds still linger years later
Vern Eichler's life changed forever when he left his hometown in God's country and landed in the jungles of Vietnam.
He will always bear a reminder of the half dozen sniper bullets that ravaged his body and still cause him pain almost 48 years later, he said. [More]
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