Older soldiers answer the call to arms

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Dr. Phil Ritchey, 69, was asked by the Army in November 2003 to come back to active duty for a tour in Baghdad. Ritchey accepted.

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“My wife and I have been doing volunteer work all over the world,” said Ritchey, a 1957 graduate of West Point. said. “Baghdad isn’t so bad, compared to some of the other places I’ve been. It’s definitely not like Vietnam,” where he spent a year in 1967.