James Cullins, 89, can’t prove the Cold War caused his hearing loss issues, but he said firing a machine gun without earplugs certainly didn’t help. Cullins served as a machine gunner during the Berlin Airlift, at a time when the United States airlifted food, water and medicine to Allied-controlled parts of Berlin.
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