Days of War: Preparation for Vietnam
Basic training was brutal. One may hear that from a lot of soldiers, and ours was. It took place in Fort Benning, Georgia, from late January to March, 1969. The drill sergeant’s job was to get us in shape for Vietnam, for almost all of us were going there. Sleep was hard to come by.,
Hurricanes, Dogs, and a Question
Would you go out in the pouring rain if you didn’t have to?
Days of War: Movie “The Wall” and My Mother
I saw another Vietnam war movie, “The Wall” — better than some other ones I’ve watched, its home scenes brought back memories of when I left for Vietnam.
Spain: Strange How Memories Work
My best friend and I took our spring vacation in Spain. We both loved Hemingway and, having read “Death in the Afternoon”, we went to the corridas, the bullfights, and enjoyed them.
Days of Peace: Snake In Your House
In Africa, snakes were plentiful, so we were trained to be careful, for poisonous snakes abounded, as did constrictors like boa constrictors.
Days of Peace: Monsier Basari, Comradery, and a Personal Lesson in Segregation
In 1968 I was in training for the Peace Corps in Togo in Leland, Louisiana, near Natchez on an African American college campus that had recently closed. There I met African trainers, some from the Ivory Coast and others from Togo. One of my favorites was Monsieur Basari.
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