{"id":123880,"date":"2019-04-25T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=123880"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:39:21","slug":"video-texas-teens-tribute-honors-vietnam-casualty-david-nash-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/25\/video-texas-teens-tribute-honors-vietnam-casualty-david-nash-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Texas teen&#8217;s Vietnam tribute honors memory of David Nash &#8217;68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now finishing her junior year at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, Annakate Kelley is looking ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, she\u2019ll be vice president of the school\u2019s famed drill team, and her college search is ramping up, too. Having just returned from visits to 11 mid-Atlantic schools, she\u2019s at a familiar stage: \u201cI have no idea where I want to go,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley\u2019s future is calling, but in recent months she\u2019s also taken time to ponder the past. As part of an AP English project, she created a video tribute, based on her research, to the life and death of a beloved Bates alumnus, David Nash \u201968, who was killed in Vietnam in spring 1970.<\/p>\n<section class=\"highlight-box highlight-box-green\"><\/p>\n<h6>Bates alumni killed in Vietnam<\/h6>\n<p>Four Bates graduates died in Vietnam: Robert Ahern \u201964 in 1969, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/features\/never-too-late\/\">Harry Mossman \u201965<\/a> in 1972, Charles Pfaffmann \u201967 in 1970, and David Nash \u201968 in 1970. Allan Jordan \u201965, who attended Bates briefly and later graduated from Union, was killed in 1968.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Along the way, she\u2019s made contact with a slew of Nash\u2019s friends from Bates, catalyzing an unexpected round of conversation and memory-sharing 50 years after his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnakate was able to tap into a store of knowledge and sentiment from 50 years ago, and she\u2019s done more to bring Bates people together around David\u2019s memory than she will ever realize,\u201d said Bruce Stangle \u201970. \u201cWe owe her a debt of gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Annakate Kelley, a junior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, created this tribute video for her AP English class about David Nash &#8217;68, killed in Vietnam in 1970.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"April 17, 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZEcJGizOYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kelley\u2019s project is rooted in her school\u2019s AP English curriculum. Each year since 2009, junior AP students have read <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, author Tim O\u2019Brien\u2019s collection of short stories about combat soldiers in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Then they research a person \u2014 assigned randomly \u2014 whose name appears on the national Vietnam Veterans Memorial and create a video tribute using quotes, photographs, and other ephemera, including letters home, plus the student\u2019s own voice-over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt moved me,\u201d said Mike Nolan \u201969, a Vietnam combat veteran, after seeing Kelley\u2019s video. Noting that it was created by someone encountering the war for the very first time, Nolan says that \u201cher young age and time separation gives her a certain honesty without prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebecka Stucky, a high school English teacher of 44 years, created Westlake\u2019s Vietnam tribute program in 2009, gaining support from the school library <a href=\"https:\/\/eanes.tv\/category\/Virtual+Vietnam+Memorial\/81478061\">to create a public site for the video projects<\/a>. Since then, Westlake students have created an astonishing 4,292 tributes, including <a href=\"https:\/\/eanes.tv\/media\/t\/1_xrszttit\/81478061\">one for\u00a0Charles Pfaffmann \u201967<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123911\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/annakate-kelley-image1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123911\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/annakate-kelley-image1-227x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Annakate Kelley, a junior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, created a tribute video to David Nash '68, killed in Vietnam in 1970.\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/annakate-kelley-image1-227x300.jpeg 227w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/annakate-kelley-image1-682x900.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/annakate-kelley-image1-152x200.jpeg 152w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/annakate-kelley-image1.jpeg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annakate Kelley, a junior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, created a tribute video to David Nash &#8217;68, killed in Vietnam in 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For her 16- and 17-year-old students, reading O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s book and creating the tributes \u201chelps make the war more real, more tangible,\u201d says Stucky. \u201cThey are near the age that some of their soldiers died, so it makes a tremendous impact on them. They begin to refer to the person they are researching as \u2018my guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case with Kelley. As she began her AP coursework, she recalls how \u201cit felt hard to find a connection to the war. It seemed so long ago.\u201d After reading the book and creating the video, \u201cit feels close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That proximate feeling hit its height as photos poured in from Nash\u2019s Bates friends, including John Lanza \u201967 and Bill Bensch \u201967. In one, Nash is with a bunch of friends in Parker Hall. He&#8217;s grinning, a beer in hand, and more than a few of his buddies are flipping the bird at the camera. Did Kelley notice the gesture? \u201cAbout the third time I looked at the photo, yeah,\u201d she says with a laugh.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123889\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-Parker-19650018_2a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123889\" class=\"wp-image-123889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-Parker-19650018_2a.jpg\" alt=\"David Nash '68 (upper right, beer in hand) and friends pose in West Parker Hall in October 1965. (Photograph by Bill Bensch '67)\" width=\"682\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-Parker-19650018_2a.jpg 882w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-Parker-19650018_2a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-Parker-19650018_2a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-Parker-19650018_2a-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Nash &#8217;68 (standing at right, beer in hand) and bird-flipping friends pose in West Parker Hall in October 1965. (Photograph by Bill Bensch &#8217;67)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seeing him in his Bates environment, with friends, beer, and laughter, changed her perception of Nash. \u201cAt first I thought of him as a tough soldier. But he was just a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien\u2019s book is about the literal and metaphorical things that soldiers carried with them in Vietnam. Nash carried \u201clove for his sister and his mother,\u201d Kelley believes. \u201cI think that\u2019s what was getting him through, thinking of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nash\u2019s mother died in 2010 (his father had died when he was 5 years old). His sister, Susan Rice, lives in Brewster, Mass., with her husband, Jonathan. She loaned Kelley letters that her brother wrote from Vietnam, letters filled with now-familiar sentiments of growing disillusionment, frustration, and fear.<\/p>\n<p>It was hard to re-read his letters, says Rice, and the experience revived some regrets. Four years older than her brother and already married and living far from home, she &#8220;didn\u2019t even get a chance to see him play baseball\u201d in high school or at Bates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123885\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-pitch-img001-edit-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123885\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-pitch-img001-edit-crop.jpg\" alt=\"David Nash '68 pitching for Bates. (Photograph by Jim Ledley '69)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-pitch-img001-edit-crop.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-pitch-img001-edit-crop-400x287.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-pitch-img001-edit-crop-900x645.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-pitch-img001-edit-crop-200x143.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Nash &#8217;68 pitching for Bates. (Photograph by Jim Ledley &#8217;69)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s been the hardest part of this experience, says Kelley, and what made her tear up at times: realizing that \u201cthe war still affects people every single day. People live with the pain of the war every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pain does endure, says Rice, but so does hope and appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnakate\u2019s high school is not allowing their students to forget about this very sad chapter of American life,\u201d Rice says. \u201cIn that sense, I feel good about it, the same way I felt about watching Ken Burns\u2019 <em>Vietnam War<\/em>. It\u2019s hard to watch, but good to always keep bringing those lessons forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Stucky\u2019s students, reaching out to family and friends to learn about \u201ctheir guys\u201d becomes \u201can amazing experience to guide them in their discovery.\u201d Importantly, the students \u201care creating something for a very real audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At first, Kelley\u2019s Bates audience numbered three. Reviewing Nash\u2019s presence on various Vietnam tribute sites, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvmf.org\/Wall-of-Faces\/37392\/DAVID-R-NASH\">Vietnam Veterans Virtual Memorial Wall<\/a>, she saw tributes from Sal Spinoza \u201968, Bill Penders \u201970, and Charlie Buck \u201970.<\/p>\n<p>Buck lives not far from Nash\u2019s hometown of Mountain Lakes, N.J., and as fate would have it, he\u2019d recently visited a cemetery in Basking Ridge to find Nash\u2019s grave. Then, he received an email inquiry from Kelley. \u201cIt almost knocked me off my chair,\u201d says Buck.<\/p>\n<p>After Kelley contacted the trio, they and others, including Lanza and Stangle, helped to widen the circle, which now includes well over 100 Bates alumni, not to mention friends from Nash&#8217;s hometown that Kelley contacted for her project.<\/p>\n<p>Rice says that the pain of losing her brother is also lessened by knowing that \u201cclassmates and Bates friends still hold him in high regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123884\" style=\"width: 866px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image3-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123884\" class=\"wp-image-123884 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image3-edited-856x900.jpg\" alt=\"A pitcher for Bates, David Nash '68 adopts a serious look for his baseball portrait in spring 1967. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)\" width=\"856\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image3-edited-856x900.jpg 856w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image3-edited-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image3-edited-190x200.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image3-edited.jpg 1825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pitcher for Bates, David Nash &#8217;68 adopts a serious expression for his baseball portrait in spring 1967. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And do they. At Bates, Nash played baseball, majored in history, and, in his senior year, served as president of the intramurals council. Friends told Kelley how Nash was a \u201creally good kid,\u201d a \u201cBates hero,\u201d and a \u201cfirst-class guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Penders, Nash was \u201cwonderful, loving, sensitive, and kind.\u201d And a letter to his hometown paper after his death called him \u201cwell-mannered, decent, and polite&#8230;. He only wanted to \u2018play ball.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outpouring tells Kelley something about Nash\u2019s college. \u201cBates seems like a community where everyone is supportive,\u201d she says. \u201cBates people seem to hold their connections forever, and I don\u2019t think that happens at all colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after graduation, Nash was drafted to fight in Vietnam. He underwent a new type of Army training at Fort Benning, Ga., one geared toward filling a pressing need for more noncommissioned officers who could lead troops into battle.<\/p>\n<p>Nash was tapped as his group&#8217;s &#8220;Distinguished Graduate&#8221; and promoted to staff sergeant. In his familiar self-deprecating and ironic tone, he judged the honor to be the result of &#8220;a calamity of errors&#8221; by the Army.<\/p>\n<p>By September 1969, Nash was in Vietnam, but rather than the infantry, he was surprised to learn that he would command an armored cavalry assault vehicle, or ACAV, in the 11th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Squadron, I Troop, 3rd Platoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123887\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123887\" class=\"size-large wp-image-123887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit-900x900.jpg\" alt=\"In May 1969, David Nash '68 is congratulated by First Sgt. Raymond Jenkins as a Distinguished Graduate of his noncommissioned officer training program at Fort Benning, Ga. (Photograph by Sgt. L. Herrmann)\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-noncommissioned-officer-003-edit.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In May 1969, David Nash &#8217;68 is congratulated by First Sgt. Raymond Jenkins as a Distinguished Graduate of his noncommissioned officer training program at Fort Benning, Ga. (Photograph by Sgt. L. Herrmann)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI know nothing about armor \u2014 its maintenance or operation,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI guess my first month will be \u2018on the job training.\u2019 It\u2019s really typical of this ______ [<em>sic<\/em>] Army to train me to be an infantryman and then put me with armor. C\u2019est la vie!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the armored cavalry in Vietnam, missions came fast and furious. Considered the Army\u2019s jack-of-all-trades, armored cavalry units were tasked with barreling into the jungle to find and engage the enemy. Being an ACAV commander \u201cis not always conducive to good health,\u201d wrote Nash. \u201cI will be sitting in the open turret&#8230;firing a 50-caliber machine gun in plain view of everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nash wrote about the dangers of RPGs, or rocket-propelled grenades, that \u201cwill go through an ACAV like a baseball goes through a window. That\u2019s how we get most of our casualties (along with mines), and they really scare me.\u201d Twice, Nash\u2019s ACAV ran over a mine, and each time he avoided injury.<\/p>\n<p>He also wrote about his perplexing encounters with civilians, mentioning <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> coverage of the My Lai massacre in one letter and expressing the familiar soldier\u2019s lament: \u201cYou just don\u2019t know who to trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123886\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-ACAV-002-edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123886\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-ACAV-002-edit.jpg\" alt=\"David Nash '68 sits atop his armored cavalry assault vehicle, or ACAV, in Vietnam in January 1970. He wrote on the back that &quot;have to do something about that beer belly.&quot; (Courtesy of Susan Rice)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-ACAV-002-edit.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-ACAV-002-edit-382x300.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-ACAV-002-edit-900x707.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/David-Nash-ACAV-002-edit-200x157.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Nash &#8217;68 sits atop his armored cavalry assault vehicle, or ACAV, in Vietnam in January 1970. On the back of the photo, he wrote, &#8220;I have to do something about that beer belly.&#8221; (Courtesy of Susan Rice)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By December 1969, after heavy fighting near the Cambodian border, his platoon, which was supposed to have 40 men, was down to 24. \u201cAll three of my crew are 20 years old \u2014 fresh out of high school. My gunner is a medic. That\u2019s how hard up we are for men,\u201d he wrote to his sister.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his \u201cgung ho\u201d platoon leader, a first lieutenant, kept volunteering for extra assignments. \u201cWe have now been in the field for 32 consecutive days,\u201d wrote Nash. The lieutenant, he added, \u201cdoesn\u2019t think of his men enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Kelley, the event that defined Nash\u2019s character came the day he was mortally wounded. A new soldier had been assigned to check the perimeter for land mines. And Nash, perhaps because of who he was or perhaps because of what he didn\u2019t like about his platoon leader, or perhaps both, volunteered to take the new soldier\u2019s place. During the patrol, on March 26, 1970, he stepped on a mine.<\/p>\n<p>He survived the blast and the loss of his leg, but complications set in. On April 17, he dictated a letter to a Red Cross worker from his hospital bed in Japan. \u201cMy wounds have healed but I picked up intestinal problems, malaria, and other assorted problems,\u201d he wrote to his sister. He was fed intravenously. \u201cAt this point I think I\u2019d pay ten dollars for a cheeseburger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nash died 26 days later, on May 13, 1970. He was 23 years old.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123899\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image4-edited2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123899\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image4-edited2.jpg\" alt=\"David Nash '68 (second from left) and fellow Bobcat hurlers gather with their baseball coach, Chick Leahey '52 (right), in the Gray Athletic Building in spring 1967. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image4-edited2.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image4-edited2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image4-edited2-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/04\/Baseball_1967_image4-edited2-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Nash &#8217;68 (second from left) and fellow Bobcat hurlers gather with their baseball coach, Chick Leahey &#8217;52 (right), in the Gray Athletic Building in spring 1967. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The next spring, his Bates baseball coach, Chick Leahey \u201952, announced the creation of the David R. Nash Memorial Baseball Award, an effort spearheaded by Mike Morin &#8217;68 and supported by teammates and friends of Nash. In recent years, his Bates friends have also endowed a scholarship fund in Nash\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Leahey\u2019s widow, Ruth Leahey, has seen Kelley\u2019s tribute video. \u201cI wish Chick were here to see it,\u201d she says. \u201cI remember when the call came that David was injured, and then a second call that he had died. Chick was deeply sad and frustrated by the loss of David\u2019s life in the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Years later, the Leaheys traveled to Washington, D.C. 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