I graduated HS in 1967.My era had a lot of "Petes" and we were ill prepared for how to help them when they came home... IF they came home.. from the horrors of Vietnam.In exchange for wiping out my college debt I signed up as a nurse and spent 18 months there..One of the most notorious war trials involved a lawyer and serviceman from my little Upper Peninsula home town.I'm coming up on 75...I haven't gotten over Vietnam yet.
Wow, Barbara, thank you for sharing this. It was a time that defined us. I’m often asked why I mention the war in my books and other writing—because it defined us.
Thanks for honoring the walking dead today. They are forgotten all too often.
Yes, they are
I graduated HS in 1967.My era had a lot of "Petes" and we were ill prepared for how to help them when they came home... IF they came home.. from the horrors of Vietnam.In exchange for wiping out my college debt I signed up as a nurse and spent 18 months there..One of the most notorious war trials involved a lawyer and serviceman from my little Upper Peninsula home town.I'm coming up on 75...I haven't gotten over Vietnam yet.
Wow, Barbara, thank you for sharing this. It was a time that defined us. I’m often asked why I mention the war in my books and other writing—because it defined us.
Such a sad and extraordinarily beautiful story of a childhood memory decimated by war.
Your childhood friend set himself free from that devastation eventually and lived his life as wanted to live it. That became his victory.
I like that! I like that very much!
Fuck it. Fuck it, indeed.
This hits hard