Family of 100% disabled Vietnam vet reeling from death and expenses

Family reeling from veteran's death, funeral expenses
Hattiesburg native who received Bronze Star in Vietnam was disabled
11:17 PM, Jul. 2, 2011

Richard "Dickey" Randolph (right) and his friend Nelvil Hollingsworth from Hattiesburg, had an impromptu reunion in South Vietnam while they were serving there in the early 1970s. The family is struggling after Randolph's recent death. / Special to The Clarion-Ledger

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Gary Pettus

Hattiesburg native Richard "Dickey" Randolph didn't ask much from his country - a house near the ocean, a place to fish and the company of his family.

But his country had asked much of him, drafting him into the Army 40 years ago and encouraging him to go to Vietnam, where he was rewarded with a Bronze Star, shrapnel scars and wounds that wouldn't heal.

He was 100 percent disabled, plagued by post-traumatic stress disorder, because he had taken care of his country, said Nancy Randolph of Pace, Fla., his wife of some 25 years; so when he died, she assumed his country would take care of him.
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Family reeling from veteran death