"About 28% to 30% of all medicines now sold in Thailand are herb-based, " says Dr. Pennepa Subcharoen, director of the Institute of Traditional Thai Medicine in Bangkok.

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Some of these men are here today -- including Herb Miller, the soldier that Father Kapaun saved in that ditch and then carried all those miles.

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