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Show Injured soldier flown to Denver Pfc. Gary Eastman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Eastman of Mapleton, who was wounded in Vietnam on October 11, has been transferred to the Fitz-simons Fitz-simons Hospital in Denver where his parents planned to visit him during the past weekend. week-end. Pfc. Eastman was riding on a personnel carrier about one mile from DaNang when they hit a land mine. The men were blown twenty or thirty feet in the air by the explosion. He received injuries to his high right leg and foot. He spent two weeks in a hospital in Japan and early last week was flown to Fitzsimons. He is 19 years of age, attended at-tended Orem High School before be-fore joining the Army. He received re-ceived his basic training at .Fort Ord, California, and had been in Vietnam since July. The Eastman family has lived in Mapleton for the past eight months. |