Vet helped wage the 'other' Vietnam War in Cambodia
When Robert Pempsell shot at a silhouette behind a bush, firing on his unit from that area ceased.
Robert Pempsell is proud of what he denied the North Vietnamese army -- weapons and other supplies -- when he and other American soldiers invaded Cambodia in the spring of 1970.
President Nixon's order to enter Cambodia surprised Americans and made the war, already unpopular back home, even more controversial.
