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  "textContent": "Philip Caputo, whose unflinching Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War became a touchstone of American war literature, died Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Conn. He was 84, reports the New York Times . His son Marc said in a statement on Facebook that the cause was cancer. A former Marine...",
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